Wyatt v. Metropolitan Maintenance Company

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Pashman, J.

On the afternoon of August 7, 1972, petitioner, Keith Wyatt, was robbed and shot during his lunch break as he was returning to the Martland Medical Center in Newark. He was employed there as a porter by defendant Metropolitan Maintenance Co. The judge of compensation and the Appellate Division upheld his claim for benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act, N. J. S. A. 34:15-1 et seq.,1 relying on Hornyak v. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 63 N. J. 99 (1973). In its petition for certification, defendant suggested that this case was…