Legal Opinion
Claim of Kopec v. Buffalo Brake Beam-Acme Steel & Malleable Iron Works
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 17, 1952PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
In February of 1950, the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarded claimant compensation for total disability upon the hypothesis that a 1943 accident had activated a pre-existingquiescent tuberculosis. Upon appeal, the Appellate Division, concluding that there was no substantial evidence to support *68the Board’s finding that the disability resulted from the accident, reversed, and with that determination we agree.
The accident occurred on February 12, 1943, when the upper portion of a molding machine operated by claimant separated and flew off, striking him in the chest and chin, and fell on his…
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