Claim of Talbot v. Kress

Appeal by the carrier from an award of the State Industrial Board. The carrier contends that there is no evidence to support a finding that the employer was not prejudiced by the failure to give written notice pursuant to section 18 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The claimant has been employed steadily by the employer for three and one-half years as a domestic, and had worked for the employer on and off for the past twenty years. On October 14, 1933, the claimant went into the laundry at nine o’clock p. m. without sufficient light, stumbled over an ice cream motor, and struck and bruised…