11 A.D.2d 569 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1960
Appeal by employer and carrier from an award for disability due to a heart attack. Appellants question the finding of accident. Claimant was the president and sole stockholder of the employer. His medical history indicated arteriosclerosis and diabetes. He testified that as he was driving a company ear returning from a business mission another ear coming onto the highway from an access lane designed to merge traffic on the main highway, pulled in front of him, requiring him to suddenly apply his brakes to avoid a collision. He says he felt a sharp pain in his chest at the time, but continued his journey, parked his ear and stopped in a drug store for an alka-seltzer. Thereafter he met a friend who recommended a doctor in the neighborhood