Kelly v. International Motor Co.

H. T. Kellogg, Acting P. J.:

The claimant’s husband, on May 3, 1922, suffered to be performed an operation for the removal of his appendix. The operation disclosed a ruptured gastric ulcer. From this disorder, complicated with acute general peritonitis, he came to his death on the following day. The question in the case is whether the rupture of the ulcer and the ensuing death can logically be attributed to an accident occurring on April 18, 1922. The only legal evidence to prove such an accident is contained in the employer’s first report of injury made upon April twenty-fifth. It consists of…