Claim of Aponte v. Santiago & Garcia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtBergan, J.
On October 7, 1945, Pasquale Aponte was found unconscious in bed in his apartment where he lived alone. In the kitchen of the apartment which was separated from the bedroom by a living room was a gas stove. Two burners of the oven were turned on from which unlighted gas was escaping. Three burners on the top of the stove were not turned on. The windows were closed. The next day he died of gas poisoning.
The Workmen’s Compensation Board has found that the death was the result of an industrial accident. It held that the death from gas poisoning was suicide and that the suicide was caused by a…
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