Claim of the Claim for Compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Law, on Account of the Death of Watkinson v. Hotel Pennsylvania
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Appeal, by the defendants, Hotel Pennsylvania and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 22d day of July, 1920. The award was made to the State Treasurer upon the ground that there were no persons surviving entitled to compensation.
1Opinion of the Court
Van Kirk, J.:
The evidence in this case discloses that the deceased Watkinson was employed at the Hotel Pennsylvania, having more than fifty rooms, as a bellboy, working from twelve midnight to seven a. m. This was a hazardous employment under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. (See § 2, group 34, as amd. by Laws of 1917, chap. 705.) His duties were to attend guests to rooms and answer calls from rooms. He was engaged in his work on the morning of May 23,1920. He had answered a call to room 1529, returned his card for this call and taken another card for room 824. Evidently this latter call had…
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