Claim of Keller v. Reis & Donovan, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Reis & Donovan, Inc., and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 21st day of November, 1919, and also from an award of said Commission entered in the office thereof on the 10th day of May, 1920.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The claimant, on the 12th day of September, 1919, slipped upon a curb in one of the public highways in Newark, N. J., and sustained a fracture of the lower extremity of the shaft of *46the fibula of the left leg, for which the State Industrial Commission has made an award covering the period from the time of the accident to the 10th of November, 1919, on which date the disability terminated. Ordinarily, of course, an employee is not entitled to compensation for injuries occurring upon the public highways, to which we are all exposed in common, but the claimant lived in the borough…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Claim of Alpert v. J. C. & W. E. PowersNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
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