Burns v. Manhattan Brass Mutual Aid Society
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Manhattan Brass Mnt’ J Aid Society, from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Queens, in favor of the plaintiff, entered on the 17th day of June, 1904, upon the decision of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
This is an action against an incorporated sick benefit society, to recover six dollars a week for a period of ten weeks during which the plaintiff was incapacitated from work by reason of illness, and hence claims to have been entitled to receive that sum from the defendant by virtue of her membership therein; and also thirty dollars, being the reasonable value of medical attendance and treatment which the plaintiff was compelled to procure because of the society’s failure to perform its engagement to cause such service to be rendered by its regularly employed physician.…
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