Claim of Moore v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, from an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 3d day of December, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
This is an appeal from an award under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The vital question involved is whether the injury sustained by the claimant arose out of his employment. The claimant was a lineman in the employ of the defendant, which owned and operated a. steam railroad, and maintained a line of poles along its right of way from Jersey City, N. J., to Buffalo, 1ST. Y., passing through, the. .town of Le Roy, N. Y. These poles carried telegraph and telephone wires used by the *179appellant in its commercial business, and for the guidance, through its signal system, of its engineers…
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