Claim of Jones v. City of New York

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant was employed as an auto mechanic in the department of water supply, gas and electricity of the City of New York. The proof suggests, and the Workmen’s Compensation Board has found, that claimant sustained two accidents. The first one was on October 22, 1947, while pushing hard on the transmission of a vehicle in the course of repair. He then suffered a pain in the chest, but did not stop work; the second was on November 7th of the same year, sustained while straining on a wrench loosening bolts. He testified he…