Claim of Days v. S. Trimmer & Sons, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, S. Trimmer & Sons, Inc., and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 29th day of May, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The employer, S. Trimmer & Sons, Inc., was a coal dealer. As such it delivered coal by wagons, and carried coal into the houses of its customers. The claimant was employed as a helper. It was his duty to assist the driver in the care of the horses and in carrying coal. February 15, 1916, was a very cold and stormy day, and while the claimant, wearing only a pair of cheap gloves, was engaged in carrying coal, all his fingers and toes were frost bitten. As a result of such frost bites ulcers developed on the third and fourth fingers of both hands, and the first and second fingers of…
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