Claim of North v. Richards

Claimant is a domestic servant found by the Workmen’s Compensation Board to have been employed for more than forty-eight hours a week in a residence in Mount Vernon, a city having a population of more than 40,000. She thus comes within the protection afforded by the Workmen’s Compensation Law (§ 3, subd. 1, group 12). On December 8, 1949, while making a bed she tripped over a loose wire and fell, sustaining a fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An award of compensation has been made jointly against the appellants, who are husband and wife, on the basis of a factual finding that the husband…