Claim of Barrow v. Malone Telegram, Inc.

An employer and insurance carrier appeal from an award and decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which awarded compensation in the sum of $8,701.87, covering the period from June 15, 1948 to July 22, 1954, at the rate of $27.33 per week, and directed that compensation continue at such a weekly rate for the balance of claimant’s life. Claimant suffers from a mental ailment called a manic depressive psychosis and is presently confined in the St. Lawrence State Hospital at Ogdensburg, New York. The contention made in his behalf is that this mental disability was caused by an industrial…