Claim of Hiers v. John A. Hull & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John A. Hull & Co., and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the New York office of said Commission on the 4th day of May, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
The occupation of the claimant was weighing hides on the piers in Brooklyn, which hides constituted cargoes or parts of cargoes unloaded from vessels. He was doing this work in the performance of the duties which as an employee he owed to his employer. The employment was, therefore, hazardous within the meaning of group 10 of section 2 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 67; Laws of 1914, chap. 41).
Previous to February 10, 1916, while in the same work, wet salt from the hides had permeated his gloves and caused a swelling on the back of one of his hands and an…
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