Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1940

delBusto v. E. I. DuPont deNemours & Co.

delBusto v. E. I. DuPont deNemours & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 28, 1940
259 A.D. 1070; 21 N.Y.S.2d 417; 1940 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8011
delBusto v. E. I. DuPont deNemours & Co.

Opinion of the Court

Judgment affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: While it is true that the complaint makes mention of “ gases, fumes, vapors, fibers and other impurities ” generally, the case was argued and briefed on the assumption that this case involved a silicosis or dtist disease. Furthermore, the last paragraph of the complaint, before the demand for judgment, sums up plaintiff’s alleged cause of action by alleging the unconstitutionality of the statute* which deprives him of his common-law remedy for partial injury caused by “ hazardous dust,” without giving him compensation therefor. We hold that the statute is constitutional. All concur. (The judgment grants judgment on the pleadings on motion of defendant in a silicosis action.) Present — Crosby, P. J., Cunningham, Taylor, Dowling and McCurn, JJ.

See Workmen’s Comp. Law, § 3, subd. 2, as amd. by Laws of 1935, chap. 254; Id. art. 4-A, added by Laws of 1936, chap, 887,— [Rep.

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