F. W. Kestle Associates & United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Employer1 appeals from an order of the board2 affirming a referee’s award of compensation to Alice Leonard, the widow of a deceased employee,3 whose death resulted from a heart attack. Causation is at issue. We affirm.

Employer furnishes equipment for window displays in shops and stores. Decedent’s duties, which occasionally required him to take overnight trips out of town, consisted of transferring props to job sites and placing them in display windows. Upon arriving at job sites decedent normally received assistance in unloading the props and placing them in the display…