Claim of Buxbaum v. Cumberland Provision Co.

The appeal is from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board that claim for disability due to a myocardial infarction occurring on November 14, 1951 and attributed to emotional strain induced by claimant’s observation of an accident to another employee on November 7, 1951, was timely filed, although formal written claim was not made until February 23, 1954, more than two years after the alleged accident (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 28); the board holding “ that claimant’s testimony on May 19, 1953 constituted a timely filing of a claim ’ ’ and ‘ ‘ further, that payment of wages by the…