Farmer v. Bieber-Goodman Corporation

These two cases present the same question of law. The plaintiffs in both claim compensation for incapacity resulting from mercurial poison ing, an occupational disease, arising out of and in the course of their employment in the hat industry. In each the commissioner denied compensation because of a failure of the plaintiff to meet the requirements of the statute as to written notice of the claim for compensation. In the Farmer case the first manifestation of a symptom of the disease occurred in the fall of 1931, the plaintiff became incapacitated March 2d, 1933, but he made no written claim…