Kenyon v. Swift Service Corporation

The employer-respondent conducts a cleaning and pressing service in Greenwich, where the claimant was employed. On August 8th, 1933, cleaning fluid, composed mainly of carbon tetra-chloride and used in?washers, was spilled on the floor. It was the claimant’s contention that in the course of her employment she inhaled the fumes from the liquid which had been spilled and was caused thereby to become ill; and that as a result of her illness so caused, an infection of the urinary tract subsequently developed whereby she was forced to expend a large sum for medical and hospital services, and was…