Claim of Barrow v. Loon Lake Hotel, Inc.

Appeals by employer and its insurance carrier (1) from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for disability and death benefits and (2) from the board’s denial of an application for reconsideration and for the opportunity to submit further proof. The award is predicated very largely, if not completely, upon proof that a heart attack sustained by decedent on June 25, 1952 was caused by work which decedent performed that day in holding a heavy electrical transformer with a block and tackle device while a coemployee secured it to a pole. There was strong proof, to some extent…