Opinion
March 18, 1953.
Appeal from Workmen's Compensation Board.
Present — Foster, P.J., Brewster, Bergan, Coon and Imrie, JJ.
Claimant, a moulder, while assisting in the course of his employment in carrying a heavy pot of molten brass suffered from a sudden weakness and collapse. There is ample medical evidence to support the board's finding that this was caused by a rupture of a pre-existing angioma of the brain, and that it was causally related to his employment. The evidence as to the circumstances in claimant's employment which are shown to have given rise to the injury and the sudden occasion and nature of the injury sanction the finding that it was accidental. ( Matter of Bohm v. L.R.S. B. Realty Co., 289 N.Y. 808; Matter of Barnes v. New York World's Fair 1939, 277 App. Div. 819; Matter of Kayser v. Erie Co. Highway Dept., 276 App. Div. 789.) Decision and award unanimously affirmed, with one bill of costs to the claimant and the Workmen's Compensation Board, to be divided equally between them, with disbursements to each.