Claim of Segall v. Atlantic Linotype Co.

Appeal by the employer and its carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board on the ground that there is no substantial evidence to support the board’s finding that claimant’s work activity on December 3, 1964 precipitated a myocardial infarction. The board on the instant record could properly have found that the exertion *813involved in claimant’s performance of his employment activities on the third of December met the test of Matter of Masse v. Robinson Co. (301 N. Y. 34). However, to recover causal relationship must also be established by substantial medical proof…