MATTER OF SCHECHTER v. STATE INS. FUND


7 A.D.2d 813 (1958)

In the Matter of the Claim of Harry Schechter, Respondent, v. State Insurance Fund, Appellant. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 30, 1958


The board held that claimant's activities, with their "attendant emotional and physical strain", during the two-month period which preceded his attack while at home, "constitute[d] an accidental injury" which was "an aggravating and contributing factor in the coronary occlusion and myocardial infarction". Neither in the board's findings nor in the record as a whole are we able to find accident within its legal definition. Directly in point are Matter of Lesnik v. National...

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