Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1935

Claim of Schwartzott v. Erie County Highway Department

Claim of Schwartzott v. Erie County Highway Department
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided January 15, 1935
243 A.D. 662
Claim of Schwartzott v. Erie County Highway Department

Opinion of the Court

Decedent suffered from poison ivy poisoning, and later from another skin infection resulting therefrom, and died thereof on September 11, 1933. The amendment to section lO of the Workmen s Compensation Law as to relief workers, in effect May 21, i934, was net retroacti/o, as to this case, and did no 6 affect claimant’s rights which became fixed at the death of deoe*663dent. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Rhodes, McNamee, Bliss and Heffernan, JJ.

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