Claim of Skeels v. Paul Smith's Hotel Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Paul Smith’s Hotel Company, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 17th day of October, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
Myron J. Skeels met his death while at work in cutting timber for wood pulp upon premises owned by the Paul Smith’s Hotel Company, in the town of Brighton, Franklin county, on the 14th day of November, 1918, and the question necessary to the disposition of this appeal is whether he was an employee of that corporation at the time of his death.
On the 20th day of November, 1918, the claimant wrote a letter to the State Industrial Commission in which she says: “ Enclosed find notice of death of my husband who was killed working in the lumber woods for Paul Amell.” On the twenty-ninth…
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