Claim of Eldridge v. Endicott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Endicott, Johnson & Co. and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission,* entered in the office of said Commission on the 23d day of January, 1919, and also from a prior award entered in said office on the 9th day of December, 1918. An award of compensation was first denied on April 12, 1916, on the opinion of Commissioner Lyon. (8 State Dept. Rep. 445.) This award was rescinded and an award made. (See 19 State Dept. Rep. 431.)
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The Commission has found that on November 16, 1915, while being shaved at a public barber shop, the neck of William Eldridge was slightly cut with a razor; that on the following day when the symptoms of anthrax first appeared, he was working in the tannery of his employers, Endicott, Johnson & Co., handling hides; that the reasonable inference is that he contracted anthrax in the course of his employment, and that he died as a result of said anthrax on November twentieth. The Commission has also found that the contracting of anthrax, consisting of the bite of the bacillus of anthrax,…
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