This is a beryllium poisoning case and the main question is whether on the whole record there is proof sufficient to bring the claim within section 40 of the Workmen's Compensation Law. The employee, Dorothy Wood, died in 1951 as a result of beryllium poisoning, but this is a claim instituted while she was living, now prosecuted by her husband, for disability benefits due to the occupational disease...
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