Claim of Meszaros v. Goldman

These cases involve a single question of law, viz., in event of successive industrial accidents ' each contributing to the temporary partial disability of a claimant, are prior employers liable if the decreased earnings after the latest accident exceed the full wages paid by the prior employers at the times of the earlier accidents ? In the Meszaros case the claimant sustained two industrial accidents while employed by different employers, one in 1942 and the other in 1945. Both are alleged to have resulted in back strain. After the second accident, claimant earned more in his disabled…