Claim of Malgieri v. General Electric Co.

The employer appeals from an award for death benefits. Decedent died December 1, 1929, from pneumonia which followed exposure. On the night of November twenty-sixth he had slept upon the porch of his house until about two o’clock in the morning, *390when members of his family carried him inside. Disability compensation had been paid from December, 1920, when he had fallen from a truck, striking'diis head against a wall, which it was determined accelerated and made active a previously quiet and inactive syphilitic condition, causing loss of memory, melancholia and mental confusion. There is no…