Claim of Bergman v. Mergenthaler Linotype Co.

This is an appeal by claimants from a decision of the State Industrial Board disallowing the surviving widow benefits, and also disallowing a claim subsequent to November 2, 1925, on the ground that there is no causal relation between decedent’s injury and subsequent death. This ease has been before this court on prior occasions. (See 263 App. Div. 911; 266 App. Div. 1049; 267 App. Div. 842.) An expert witness for the Special Fund was asked a hypothetical question which he answered. In his cross-examination it developed that his answer was not based on the hypothetical question but on many…