Ayers v. Public Service Co-Ordinated Transport

Judge Hartshorne, in the Essex County Court of Common Pleas, when this case was there on appeal from the workmen’s compensation bureau, delivered the following opinion:

“A careful reading of the four hundred-page record shows that the key to the situation lies in the fact that the original injury, as alleged by petitioner, was trivial in character, the ultimate death of petitioner’s decedent resulting from infection in such wound, despite medical care. With this in mind, the solution of both the factual and legal difficulties becomes simplified.

“Respondent-appellant contends that petitioner…