Trovato v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

For more than ten years prior to August 1, 1933, Ralph Trovato, claimant’s husband, had been employed in the boiler room of the W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Company. On that day he was promoted to the position of foreman of a shift which went on duty at three o’clock in the afternoon. Within half an hour after beginning work he suffered a heatstroke and was removed in an unconscious condition to Mt. Sinai Hospital where he died early the following morning.

The debatable question in the case is whether the heatstroke was attributable to the decedent’s exposure to…