Rightmyer v. Totowa Borough

Delaney, C. P. J.

On September 21st, 1932, the petitioner-appellee, a police officer of the borough of Totowa, filed a formal petition for compensation for an alleged one hundred per cent, permanent disability resulting, so he claimed, from a violent assault and battery upon him on November 14th, 1931, while in the performance of his duties. Respondent’s answer, filed October 10th, 1932, denied, among other things, that petitioner had sustained any injury which arose out of and in the course of his employment. On January 4th, 1933, after hearings on December 9th and 23d, 1932, a consent order…