Yeomans v. City of Jersey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Proctor, J.

This is an appeal by an employer from an award for increased disability in a workmen’s compensation proceeding, which was affirmed by the Hudson County Court and the Appellate Division. The employer appeals as a matter of right bcause of a dissent filed in the latter court.

On October 3, 1952 the petitioner, 41 years of age, was employed by Jersey City as an ambulance driver for the Medical Center, a municipally-owned hospital. On that date, he helped to carry a heavy male stretcher patient, who had mortally wounded himself in his apartment,…