Case Name: STANDARD WATER SYSTEMS COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY, ALSO CALLED STANDARD WATER SYSTEMS COMPANY, PROSECUTOR-APPELLANT, v. NETTIE A. ORT, INDIVIDUALLY, AND NETTIE A. ORT, EXECUTRIX, ETC., RESPONDENTS-APPELLEES
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1933-05-15
Citations: 110 N.J.L. 586
Docket Number: 
Parties: STANDARD WATER SYSTEMS COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY, ALSO CALLED STANDARD WATER SYSTEMS COMPANY, PROSECUTOR-APPELLANT, v. NETTIE A. ORT, INDIVIDUALLY, AND NETTIE A. ORT, EXECUTRIX, ETC., RESPONDENTS-APPELLEES.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 110
Pages: 586–587

Head Matter:
STANDARD WATER SYSTEMS COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY, ALSO CALLED STANDARD WATER SYSTEMS COMPANY, PROSECUTOR-APPELLANT, v. NETTIE A. ORT, INDIVIDUALLY, AND NETTIE A. ORT, EXECUTRIX, ETC., RESPONDENTS-APPELLEES.
Argued February 10, 1933
Decided May 15, 1933.
For the prosecutor-appellant, McCarter & English (Herbert B. Baer).
For the respondents-appellees, Gebhardt & Gebhardi (IF. Beading Gebhardt).

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bodine, J.
The only question in this case is whether petitioner's decedent met his death by reason of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. Our examination of the competent proofs leads us to the conelusion that they do not sustain the action taken by the •bureau or the Supreme Court.
The deceased was employed in shaping iron plates, the work requiring somewhat heavy lifting and the use of a sledge hammer. The work for the morning completed, without any unusual occurrence, he left the plant and started to walk home for lunch. Undoubtedly feeling unwell, he returned asking to be driven home. While being driven in the foreman's car he slumped in his seat and died the next day from a heart condition. There is nothing in the record to show that an accident occurred while the decedent was at work. Testimony by his widow that he said he guessed he must have hurt himself while at work is competent proof of nothing. The weight of medical testimony indicates that the petitioner's decedent died of angina pectoris.
The judgment is reversed.
For affirmance — None.
For reversal — The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Parker, Lloyd, Case, Bodine, Heher, Yan Buskirk, Kays, Hetfibld, Dear, Wells, JJ. 12.