Claim of Burton v. Broadcast Music, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which awarded death benefits on account of the death of claimant’s husband, found by the board to have been due to smoke inhalation *558and bums of the body caused by a fire of unknown origin which occurred in the hotel suite occupied by him in Vancouver, British Columbia. The suite included decedent’s sleeping room and the parlor in which he was found dead; and was used for meetings and conferences in connection with the business activities of decedent’s corporate employer which decedent, the company’s president, had come to Vancouver to…