Claim of Connolly v. Waldorf Astoria Corp.

Appeal from death benefit award in a heart injury case. The decedent, 51 years of age, worked for the employer as a window washer and when the weather was inclement worked in the storeroom of the hotel doing a wide assortment of jobs. He had a pre-existing cardiac condition. On February 27, 1958 he was working in the storeroom moving lamps, tables and other furniture with one of his fellow employees. He first complained of pain when moving a table weighing about 20 pounds but failed to heed the suggestion of a coemployee that he see a doctor in the hotel and instead continued to work. About a…