Claim of O'Brien v. Long Island State Parkway Commission

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for death benefits, appellants’ brief limiting the issue on appeal to the question whether there is in the record sufficient corroboration of the hearsay evidence of accident. The .board found that the exertion expended by decedent, in the course of his employment as a highway patrolman, in helping a woman motorist change a tire “ contributed to the development of a myocardial infarction and to death”; and that the hearsay evidence of the work and the exertion, consisting of…