Claim of Stone v. N. Y. Artificial Breeders' Co-Op, Inc.

Appeal from a decision which awarded death benefits upon finding that decedent, an artificial insemination technician, while standing by the head of a cow, attempting to obtain her eartag number, was struck in the chest when the cow threw her head, causing decedent “to suffer a chest injury * * * which in turn caused the rupture of an atheromatous plaque and the formation of a coronary thrombus which resulted in death” four days later. Appellants dispute the finding of a chest injury and, more particularly, the board’s finding that “it is a logical and reasonable inference that the cow struck…