Burns v. Manhattan Brass Mutual Aid Society
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Queens, First District. Action by Emma Burns against the Manhattan Brass Mutual Aid Society. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtWillard Bartlett, J.
This is an action against an incorporated sick-benefit society to recover $6 a week for a period of 10 weeks during which the plaintiff was incapacitated from work by reason of illness, and hence claims to have been entitled to receive that sum from the defendant by virtue of her membership therein; and also $30, being the reasonable value of medical attendance and treatment which the plaintiff was compelled to procure because of the society’s failure to perform its engagement to cause such service to be rendered by its regularly employed physician.
The judgment in favor of the plaintiff is…
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