Claim of Gabrielli v. City of New York

This is an appeal by the Special Fund for Reopened Cases under Section 25-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law from a decision of the State Industrial Board in favor *1016of claimant. The sole question involved is whether or not the claim is barred by reason of claimant’s failure to file a formal claim. Claimant was employed as a laborer by the department of plant and structures of the city of New York. On October 1, 1928, while engaged in the regular course of his employment and while lowering a heavy scaSold he sustained a strain in the region of the right groin which caused him to suffer an…