The main issue raised on appeal is whether the board properly determined that the physical effort expended by decedent shortly before his death from a myocardial infarction entailed greater exertion than the ordinary wear and tear of life and thus could constitute an accident within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Law (Matter of Burris v. Lewis,
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