Claim of Skouitchi v. Chic Cloak & Suit Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Chic Cloak and Suit Company, Inc., and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 24th day of October, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The employer is a corporation of which the claimant is its president and treasurer. The question here presented is whether he is also an employee within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Law so as to be entitled to an award for injuries received in the performance of his duty.
Subdivision 6 of section 54 of the act (as added by Laws of 1916, chap. 622) gives to injured employers performing labor incidental to their occupations the same rights and remedies as are given employees, “provided, however, that the estimation of their wage values, *770respectively, shall be reasonable…
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- Claim of Kennedy v. Kennedy Manufacturing & Engineering Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
- Claim of Berman v. Reliance Metal Spinning & Stamping Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
- Hubbs v. Addison Electric Light & Power Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1920
- Matter of Howard v. . HowardNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
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