The board found that decedent tripped and fell on a city sidewalk and thereby sustained injuries to his head "which, superimposed upon a preexisting arteriosclerotic heart disease, caused his death from coronary pathology". Appellants contest the finding of accident and assert that decedent's unwitnessed fall was caused by a coronary attack which shortly resulted in his death. There was proof that decedent crossed the street from east to west; that the curb on the west side...
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