Claim of the Commissioner of Taxation & Finance v. Nu-Art Advertising Co.

While Charles A. Baker was employed as a plate resurfacer by the Nu-Art Advertising Company in September, 1931, he contracted benzol poisoning, which is an occupational disease enumerated in section 3, subdivision 2, of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 67). He became disabled in June, 1932, as a result of that disease and died in January, 1933. He had ceased to be an employee of Nu-Art in November, 1931, but became a partner in the firm of Parazin Printing Plate Company for which he performed the same kind of work. On the dates of his disablement and death he. was not employed…