Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1946

Claim of Hart v. John A. Johnson Contracting Corp.

Claim of Hart v. John A. Johnson Contracting Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided May 15, 1946
270 A.D. 970; 62 N.Y.S.2d 86
Claim of Hart v. John A. Johnson Contracting Corp.

Opinion of the Court

Appeal by employer and carrier from an awar'd of death benefits to a widow and minor children. The deceased employee was injured while, *971with five other men, he was carrying a heavy object and slipped into a hole falling “ against a building which caused his right arm to strike his abdomen ”, thereby sustaining injuries to the sigmoid. Medical experts testified that there was causal relation between the injury and death. Award affirmed, with costs to the Workmen’s Compensation Board. All concur.

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