Legal Opinion
Claim of Tate v. Estate of Dickens
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 16, 1949Published
1Opinion of the CourtHeffernan, J.
On April 7,1944, the employers, Fred Dickens, since deceased, and his wife, Effie Dickens, were the owners of an apartment building and rooming house in the city of New York. Claimant was employed by them as a janitor. As part of his duties he was required to look after the furnace in the building.
Claimant asserts that on April 7,1944, while he was breaking up clinkers in the furnace with a poker hot ashes were blown against his face and into his left eye. He attempted to remove the ashes from his eye and his wife gave him emergency treatment. As a result of the accident an infection…
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