CLOSE v. KORDULAK BROS.


44 N.J. 589 (1965)

210 A.2d 753

GARNET CLOSE, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT AND CROSS-APPELLANT, v. KORDULAK BROS., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT AND CROSS-RESPONDENT. CHARLES HENRY CLOSE, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, v. KORDULAK BROS., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H. Curtis Meanor argued the cause for petitioners-respondents and cross-appellant (Messrs. Lamb, Blake, Hutchinson & Dunne, attorneys; Mr. Meanor, of counsel).

Mr. William T. McElroy argued the cause for respondent-appellant and cross-respondent (Messrs. Pindar, McElroy, Connell & Foley, attorneys; Mr. McElroy, of counsel; Mr. George J. Kenny and Mr. McElroy, on the brief).


The opinion of the court was delivered by HALL, J.

Charles Henry Close, the employee involved in these workmen's compensation proceedings, was a welder, who, while working for Kordulak Bros. on a construction job in Bayonne, New Jersey, on September 9, 1959, suffered a heart attack. The nature of the attack was a coronary occlusion which resulted in a myocardial infarction. It has been conceded throughout that the incident constituted a compensable injury. He never...

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