Close v. Kordulak Bros.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hall, J.

Charles Henry Close, the employee involved in these workmen’s compensation proceedings, was a welder, who, while working for Kordulak Bros, on a construction job in Bayonne, New Jersey, on September 9, 1959, suffered a heart attack. The nature of the attack was a coronary occlusion which resulted in a mjmcardial infarction. It has been conceded throughout that the incident constituted a compensable injury. He never returned to his trade and died from heart failure on August 3, 1961. During his lifetime he filed a petition seeking temporary and…