Schwartz v. State

(dissenting).* Claimant’s decedent came to his death by drowning in the Hudson river at or off the State Barge Canal Terminal some distance north of North Ferry street in the city of Albany on March 6, 1934.

On that date, and from July in 1926, the deceased had been employed by the State at the terminal during the navigation season, April fifteenth to December fifteenth, as a craneman. For some three years before the date of his death he had been employed by the State during the period December fifteenth to April fifteenth as a watchman at the terminal, and on the day of his death he was so…