31 A.D.2d 993 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1969
Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed March 20, 1968, which affirmed an award of death benefits to the widow of .Charles T. Major, deceased employee. Appellants contend that there was no accident within the meaning of the Workmen’s .Compensation Law and that there is no substantial evidence of causally related death. There was -testimony that decedent was a Judge of -the -Court of Claims ' of the State of New York usually holding court for two weeks, sitting from 10:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., followed by two weeks off the bench; -that starting in January, 1962 an unusual drive was started at the Governor’s direction to clean up a “number of years” backlog of cases and Judge Major worked from nine in the morning until six or seven in the evening; and that, after trying cases in Albany for two weeks in June,