Doran's Case

Decree affirmed. The employee’s widow was awarded compensation upon her claim that his death from coronary artery disease with myocardial infarction was brought on by strain during the extraordinary snow storm of March 16, 1956. The single member’s finding, adopted by the reviewing board, that death was “causally related to . . . [his] experience on March 16” had support in somewhat unconvincing medical testimony. We conclude, however, that the assumptions in rather loosely expressed hypothetical questions did not go in material respects beyond the evidence, including extensive hospital…