Claim of Cronberg v. Lenmar Holding Corp.

Appeal from an award of death benefits in a heart -case. Decedent, the superintendent of a 92-unit apartment house, performed much of the labor required there. While plastering a hole in a ceiling, standing on a stepladder with arms outstretched overhead, first inserting a net and then applying plaster to the net, he complained that the work “ was difficult, because it was in a difficult place and s' * * hard to reach ”. When his wife came to call him to lunch, he complained of chest pain and appeared pale, but continued to work for five or six minutes, then accompanied his wife to their…