Claim of Cummings v. Underwood Silk Fabric Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Underwood Silk Fabric Company, Inc., and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 20th day of April, 1917.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The death of the employee resulted from an accidental injury September 16, 1916, at the plant where a hazardous employment was carried on by the employer. He was, therefore, an employee within the meaning of subdivision 4 of section 3 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 67; Laws of 1914, chap. 41), as amended by chapter 622 of the Laws of 1916. (Matter of Dose v. Moehle Lithographic Co., 221 N. Y. 401; Matter of McNally v. Diamond Mills Paper Co., 223 id. 83.)
In Solomon v. Bonis (181 App. Div. 672; affd., 223 N. Y. 689) the injury occurred in a non-hazardous…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Matter of Dose v. . Moehle Lithographic Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1917
- Claim of Solomon v. BonisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
- Matter of Solomon v. . BonisNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
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