Legal Opinion

Claim of Lanigan v. Town of Saugerties

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 28, 1917PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal by the defendants, Town of Saugerties and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 24th day of April, 1917.

1Opinion of the Court

Lyon, J.:

The State Industrial Commission has found as conclusions of fact that in September, 1916, the town of Saugerties, Ulster county, N. Y., was engaged in the construction, repair and maintenance of highways and bridges within the town; that the claimant Michael Lanigan was employed by the town as a foreman on the work; that his superior was Raymond Ten Broeck, the town superintendent of highways, who had authority to "employ and discharge all employees and *228to purchase the materials necessary for the work; that said superintendent and claimant usually planned the work together, and on…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Matter of Larsen v. . Paine Drug Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ex Parte Majestic Coal Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1922
  2. Kittle v. Town of KinderhookAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925

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