Legal Opinion
Claim of Wagner v. Wilson & Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 28, 1929PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardozo, Ch. J.
An award has been made to the dependent father of a workman killed in the course of his employment, and the award has been commuted in respect of future installments by requiring the payment of a gross sum. The father is an alien, not a resident of the United States or Canada. The question is whether the computation of the gross payment is in accordance with the statute.
Section 16 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Cons. Law;s, ch. 67) prescribes the award of death benefits for citizens of the United States and for aliens residing in the United States or in Canada.
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