MATTER OF BROCKLEBANK v. UNION CARBIDE INT'L CO.


17 A.D.2d 1009 (1962)

In the Matter of the Claim of Virginia G. Brocklebank, Respondent, v. Union Carbide International Company et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

November 21, 1962


The issue of accident only is presented. (Workmen's Compensation Law, § 2, subd. 7.) Deceased, aged 53 years, a sales director whose work frequently required air travel died in a hospital in Durban, South Africa, on October 24, 1958 while on an overseas business trip. About 20 years earlier pulmonary tuberculosis had necessitated the performance of a thoracoplasty with practically complete collapse of the right lung. X rays taken then and subsequently disclosed slight...

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