Claim of Hernon v. Holahan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William L. Holahan, and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 17th day of August, 1917.
1Opinion of the Court
H. T. Kellogg, J.:
This award was made to compensate for the death of an employee found by the Commission to have died as the result of sunstroke. If such was the cause of death there is sufficient authority to justify the award. (Days v. Trimmer & Sons, Inc., 176 App. Div. 124; State ex rel. Rau v. District Court, 164 N.W. Rep. 916; Kanscheit v. Garrett Laundry Co., Id. 708.) The only serious question presented is whether or not sunstroke as a cause of death was established by competent evidence.
The deceased on the morning of August 23, 1916, was assisting in the unloading of lumber from a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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