Plastic Assembled Products, Inc. v. Benkoe

This is a Workmen’s Compensation -case wherein the only question before the Court is whether there was sufficient evidence of some unusual condition of employment which caused or contributed to Claimant’s injury.

The Claimant, Paul Benkoe, age 58, although a well educated and intelligent Hungarian engineer, speaks English with considerable difficulty. At the time of the alleged accident on June 11, 1959, Claimant had been in this country for about two and a half years. He had been working for his employer, the Plastic Assembled Products, Inc., for approximately six weeks. His employer was…