Ciocca v. National Sugar Refining Co. of N.J.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The widow of the deceased employe appeals from the judgment of the Supreme Court affirming the judgment of the Pleas, which in turn reversed the judgment of the bureau in her favor.

The question we are called upon to decide is whether the Supreme Court, in adopting the factual and legal conclusions of the Pleas, invoked and applied the applicable rule of law when, as here, it held that the death of the employe — appellant’s husband — conceded to be from heat prostration suffered while at his work, was…