Sponatski's Case

The deceased employee received an injury in the course of and arising out of his employment through a splash of molten lead into his eye on September 17, 1913. He was treated at a hospital until October 13, 1913, when, as was found by the Industrial Accident Board, “while insane, as a result of his injury, he threw himself from a window and was fatally injured.” The board found further that “this insanity was brought about and resulted from the injury,” and that, while the evidence was very close upon that point, the death “did result from ‘an uncontrollable impulse and without conscious…