Kornecki v. City of New York

Claimant, an employee in the New York Transit System, had been a motorman for twenty-seven years prior to May 4,1948. On that date the self-insured employer’s physician, finding him afflicted with Dupuytren’s contracture of both hands, recommended his transfer to the duties of railroad clerk. The transfer was made and claimant continued with the same employer until December 4,1950, but, as railroad clerk, received a smaller wage and had different duties, described by him as “ Light duty, lunch relief, handle change, push change out of the window. * * * Just make change.”

He first learned that…