Banks v. Albert D. Howlett Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the defendants from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the fifth district in favor of the plaintiff, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Warner, J.; the court affirmed the award and dismissed the appeal, and from this judgment the defendants appealed. The defendant employer is a Massachusetts corporation having an office in New York City.
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Appeal by the defendants from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the fifth district in favor of the plaintiff, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Warner, J.; the court affirmed the award and dismissed the appeal, and from this judgment the defendants appealed. The defendant employer is a Massachusetts corporation having an office in New York City. One Rourke, a skilled painter, applied at its New York office for employment at his trade. The defendant employer’s superintendent in charge of the office was acquainted with Rourke, and hired him to…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
Rourke received the injuries resulting in his death while he was engaged at work for a Massachusetts employer in Connecticut. The contract of employment between him and his employer was entered into in New York. In the latter State, as in this, workmen’s compensation legislation was then in force creating rights and obligations arising out of contracts of employment which were contractual in their nature and capable of extra-territorial operation. Matter of Post v. Burger & Gohlke, 216 N. Y. 544, 554, 111 N. E. 351.
The question here at issue is whether or not the Superior Court acted properly…
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