Claim of Bauss v. Consolidated Chimney Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtBrewster, J.
This is an appeal by claimant from a denial of death benefits sought under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. That statute’s lack of definition as to its territorial *72scope as to compensable injuries occurring within our State in the course of work performed here but in an employment obtaining elsewhere, gives rise to the sole question presented.
Claimant’s husband, a bricklayer, was killed when he fell from an industrial plant chimney in process of construction at Niagara Falls, N. Y., on September 10, 1941. Thus engaged, he was in the employ of an Illinois corporation, the employer-respondent.…
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