Case ID: njl_92/html/0633-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ELIZABETH KROOG, WIDOW OF HENRY KROOG, DECEASED, RESPONDENT, v. KEYSTONE DAIRY COMPANY, A CORPORATION, APPELLANT.
    Argued November 20, 1918
    Decided February 6, 1919.
    Oil appeal from the Supreme Court, in which the following per curiam was filed:
    • “This is a workmen’s compensation case heard in the Hudson County Court of Common Pleas, resulting in a determination in favor of Elizabeth Kroog, widow of Henry Kroog. Henry Kroog was a salesman and driver of one of the defendant’s wagons. On the 8th of September, 1916, he was killed while driving a horse and wagon onto a weighing scale at the ice depot belonging to the Mountain lee Company at Perry street and Ravine road at the Erie railroad in Jersey City. As he was driving onto the scale, he was standing up in the wagon, and was heard to say ‘Whoa’ suddenly; the horse stopped and the decedent was accidently thrown or fell out of the wagon onto the ground, his head striking an iron rail at the side of I he scale, causing death. The defence was that his death was the result of natural causes, such as heart failure. This is the only point in the case. The judgment of the Common Pleas Court is supported by the evidence, and this, under the statute, on questions of fact, is conclusive and binding. The judgment of the Common Pleas Court is affirmed, with costs.”
    Por the appellant, M. Casewell Heine.
    
    Por the respondent, William R. Gannon.
    
   Pee Ctjeiam.

The judgment under review' will be affirmed, for the reasons sol forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court.

For affirmance — The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Swayze, Trenchard, Minturn, Kalisch, Gardner, JJ. 7.

For reversal — Parker, Williams, JJ. 2.