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Court Rules Against Compensation ALBANY, N. Y., May 12. — A business executive who suffered a heart attack at a race track during off-duty hours cannot collect Workmens Compensation, the Appellate division of the Supreme Court ruled here yesterday. The ruling reversed, by a vote of 3 to 2, an award to Morris L. Lesnik, of Elizabeth, N. J., vice-president of the National Carloading Corp., of New York. The Workmens Compensation Board had awarded Lesnik the maximum of 2 a week while he was recuperating from a heart attack suffered during a visit to the Santa Anita race track in California. He contended the attack resulted from strains and tensions of big work and that he was entertaining a client at the track. Justice Francis Bergan, who wrote the opinion in the case, said such an injury could not be considered accidental within the scope of the Workmen3 Compensation Law.
