Claim of De la Gardelle v. Hampton Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Anna de la Gardelle, claimant, from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 16th day of November, 1914, dismissing her claim herein, and also from the conclusions of fact, rulings of law and decision of said Commission bearing date the 17th day of November, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The deceased was employed as a butcher, or assistant to the chef, at the Hampton Hotel in Albany. His duty was the distribution of meats to the cooks as ordered. While boning a leg of mutton on the butcher block, his knife accidentally slipped and severed an artery in his groin, resulting in femoral hemorrhage, causing his death.
Concededly, his death arose out of and in the course of his employment, and was not occasioned by any of the excepted causes stated in the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 67; Laws of 1913, chap. 816, as re-enacted and amended by Laws of 1914,…
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