Claim of Emmert v. City of New York

This is an appeal by a self-insured employer from a schedule award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board in favor of the widow of a deceased employee for 100% permanent loss of use of his left leg prior to his death and protracted temporary total disability. The deceased-was employed as a sweeper by the Department of Sanitation of the City of New York. On January 8, 1940, while engaged in the course of his employment, he slipped on icé and suffered a fractured femur of the left leg. He was never able to return to work again and died on June 15, 1942, from a cause unrelated to the accident.…