Claim of Solomon v. Solo Slipper Corp.

— Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for death benefits. The board found that decedent tripped and fell on a city sidewalk and thereby sustained injuries to his head “which, superimposed upon a preexisting arteriosclerotic heart disease, caused his death from coronary pathology ”. Appellants contest the finding of accident and assert that decedent’s unwitnessed fall was caused by a coronary attack which shortly resulted in his death. There was proof that decedent crossed the street from east to west; that the curb on…