Claim of Bonomi v. Poirier & McLane Corp.

Deceased employee was found unconscious, under circumstances which will be briefly described, by a coemployee. He died five days later, concededly as a result of a ruptured aneurysm. Appellants assert that there is inadequate evidence that decedent suffered an industrial accident, and that there is inadequate evidence of causal relation between his death and the claimed accident. The real question presented by this record is whether decedent suffered the rupture of the aneurysm spontaneously and therefore, in an unconscious state, slid to the place where he was found, or whether he fell and…