Claim of Leich v. Borchard Affiliations, Employer, & State Insurance Fund

Appeal by State Fund as carrier from an award for accidental injuries resulting in various infections and diseases of the respiratory tract and the lighting up of a pre-existing but dormant pulmonary and laryngeal tuberculosis. Claimant was the janitor or building superintendent of two apartment houses, Nos. 229 and 230 West Ninety-seventh street, New York city. *1020He occupied a ground floor apartment in one of the buildings and about six o’clock in the evening of the Saturday before Christmas, 1935, just after taking a hot bath, he was notified of a defect in the steam boiler which was located…