Legal Opinion
Claim of Thompson v. City of Binghamton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 11, 1926PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtVan Kirk, J.
The claim is for death benefits and is made by the widow of James F. Thompson, who was the janitor of a school. The city of Binghamton is the employer. Thompson’s duties were to perform the usual work of a janitor and, in ease of a fire alarm at the schoolhouse, to go there. On Sunday, April 6, 1924, there was such a fire alarm. Though in fact there was no fire, the alarm was real. Thompson was at home at the time, but was called and taken to the school building in an automobile. When he reached the school building he hurried in as fast as he could. It was perhaps thirty feet from where the…
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