Claim of Beeler v. Hildan Crown Container Corp.

Appeal is taken from a decision which disallowed a claim for death benefits, the board finding “ that decedent did not fall to his death accidentally, that suicide is the only reasonable inference to be drawn from the facts in this record, and that the presumption against suicide prescribed by Section 21 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law had been overcome by substantial evidence. ’ ’

The fall, whether accidental or suicidal, was unwitnessed and the board found, inferentially, that decedent passed through an open window on the 12th floor of an office building to fall to his death on the street…