Claim of Griffin v. Griffin & Webster, Inc.

The question is presented in pointed form by this case whether a man who has a nonoccupational illness aggravated by his employment suffers, in that aggravation, an ‘ ‘ occupational disease ’ ’ within the scope of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. It can often be found readily enough, as it has been found here, that the aggravation and consequent disability are brought home directly to the work. It cannot always so readily be found, as some of the leading New York cases seem to require, that such an aggravation would be a common, expected, and inherent result of…