Donlan's Case

Questions of notice and claim were waived at the argument. But the insurer still contends that the evidence does not warrant the finding of the board that the employee’s death resulted from "a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment.” G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, §§ 26, 31.

The immediate cause of death was coronary occlusion. There was little controversy as to what occurred before and at the time of the death. The employee, a man between fifty and sixty years of age, began working for the employer on June 1, 1942. His work consisted in pulling or pushing a truck loaded…