Legal Opinion
Claim of Abbott v. Bedford Products Division
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 5, 1961PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
An employer and its carrier appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board based on a finding that claimant’s disability was causally related to his employment.
Claimant, aged 57, was a trailer-truck driver. On August 13, 1957 he left Dunkirk, New York at 6:00 p.m. with a consignment of 2,400 cartons of concentrated grape juice and drove approximately 400 miles to North Abington, Massachusetts, arriving there at approximately 3:00 a.m. on the following morning. He slept in the cab of the truck until the plant of the consignee opened at 7:00 a.m. when, with the assistance…
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- Claim of Masse v. James H. Robinson Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1950
- Claim of Zaepfel v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1954
- Claim of Zaepfel v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1956
- Claim of Kehoe v. London Guarantee & Accident InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1951
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- Dumont v. Industrial CommissionSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1962