Hilt v. Roslyn Volunteer Fire Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

This is an appeal from the denial of benefits by the Workmen’s Compensation Board to claimant who *151sought to recover for a heart attack suffered on March 16, 1964 while he was acting in his capacity as a volunteer fireman. The evidence established on behalf of the claimant showed that while he was driving a twenty year old, ten ton fire truck, it became necessary to engage the emergency brake to keep the truck from slipping backward during a turn about; that the emergency brake mechanism (a lever with a push button on top) would not release readily because in the…