Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1945

Claim of Sturm v. Trout

Claim of Sturm v. Trout
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 14, 1945
269 A.D. 1003; 58 N.Y.S.2d 465; 1945 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4987
Claim of Sturm v. Trout

Opinion of the Court

Appeal by noninsured employers from an award made to claimant under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. It has been found that claimant and his wife were employed by appellants as janitors and caretakers of an apartment house. Also that while claimant was engaged in the course of his employment, some time in October or November, 1943, a bed spring fell on his foot and injured one of his toes. Subsequently gangrene developed and he lost the toe. There is medical evidence of causal relation. Only questions of fact are presented and there is evidence *1004to sustain the findings of the board. Award affirmed, with costs to claimant. All concur.

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