In re Rheinwald
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from Workmen’s Compensation Commission. proceedings under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by Mary Rheinwald to obtain compensation for the death of her husband, Robert Rheinwald, opposed by the Builders’ Brick & Supply Company, employer, and the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Baltimore, Md., insurer. Compensation was denied by the State Workmen’s Compensation Commission, and the claimant appeals, on questions certified.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
[1] I am of the opinion that the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, c. 67; Laws 1913, c. 816, as reenacted and amended by Laws 1914, c. 41, and Laws-1914, c. 316), fairly construed and beneficially applied, gives right of compensation to the present claimant before the State Workmen’s Compensation Commission. The work in which Robert Rheinwald, the claimant’s husband, was engaged at the time of his death, the manner in which he was doing it, the circumstances under which he came to be doing it, and the relation which his work bore to the business carried on by the respondent Builders’…
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