Claim of Dillon v. Le Roy Machine Co.

This is an appeal by the employer and its carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The claim here involved was filed by the widow and two minor children of the decedent Leslie Dillon who died on October 29, 1954. On October 28, 1954 while the decedent was working for the Le Roy Machine Co., Inc., he suffered the alleged accident which resulted in his death. The decedent had been talking to some fellow workmen and he left them and walked toward a truck which he had shortly before parked there. The next thing that anyone saw was the decedent falling to the ground…