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The dependents of a deceased employee seek review and annulment of a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board which denied their claims for death benefits.

On January 31, 1967, at approximately 9 p.m. decedent, a 46-year-old senior custodian foreman of the Building Services Department of Los Angeles County, was driving a car in the course of his employment when the car collided with the curb of the street, swung to the right down a 30-foot embankment, struck a fence, and settled on end in a parking lot below. He was taken to the receiving hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

An autopsy report ascribed death to occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis. The report noted that decedent’s heart was greatly enlarged with a marked degree of myocardial fibrosis (scar tissue) including an extensive area in the posterior wall of the left ventricle; that the ^coronary arteries revealed a marked degree of atherosclerosis with calcification and obliteration of the lumens by atheromatous process to the extent of 80 percent in the anterior descending, 60 percent in the left circumflex and 90 percent in the right main arteries; and that there was present a moderate bilateral…