Benjamin v. Kurnick

This is a workman’s compensation case. The defendant in certiorari was a laborer working as a janitor for the prosecutor at No. 58 Court street, Newark, lie was rolling a barrel of ashes weighing approximately one hundred pounds out of the cellar, and after it got part way out it began to slip and fell off the step and the barrel rolled against him and he fell and when picked up was injured, and found to be paralyzed in the left arm, the left leg and on the right side of the face. lie was removed to the hospital. He then had a blood pressure of two hundred.

He filed his petition and the…