Kuropata v. National Sugar Refining Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

The single question requiring decision in this workmen’s compensation case is whether, as petitioner claims, decedent’s death was the result of an accident (an electric shock) arising out of and in the course of his emplojunent, or whether, as respondent claims, decedent’s death was the result of natural causes (coronary occlusion and sclerosis) not in anywise connected with the decedent’s employment.

Frank Kuropata, a man forty-one years of age, had been employed by respondent company for twenty-three years as a laborer and general workman…