Ducjack v. New Jersey Zinc Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The plaintiff was employed by the defendant company as a “mucker” in its zinc mine. The character of his employment required him to work in the mine at a depression of eight hundred feet, and while engaged in 'this employment he became afflicted with rheumatism, which he attributed to the wet and damp condition of the place where he was put at work, and as a result of the rheumatism, alleges he was compelled to quit his job in 1926.

He brought his action against the defendant company to recover compensation for the impairment of his health,…