Matter of Joyce v. . Eastman Kodak Co.

Claimant, an employee of the Eastman Kodak Company, was hurt on October 19, 1915, by the breaking of a chair which threw her to the ground. Her proof of claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Act was filed at Albany in the office of the state industrial commission, now the state industrial board, on October 20, 1916, but there is evidence that it was delivered at a branch office in Rochester on October 19. Shortly thereafter she sued her employer in the Supreme Court to recover damages for the injury, her position then being that the nature of her employment did not bring her within the class…