Deesch v. Emmaus Borough

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This is another of those border line compensation cases in which the death of the employee from a heart attack is alleged to have resulted from the putting forth of sudden and unusual exertion. Claimant’s husband, fifty-eight years of age, had for many years been Chief of Police of the Borough of Emmaus. He died February 28, 1939, from a coronary thrombosis, with which he was stricken on February 25th. Contending that this fatal heart attack was caused by the exertion which her husband was necessarily and unexpectedly obliged to expend in arresting and removing from…