Claim of Beeman v. Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The- Board of Education of Penn Yan, N. Y., from a decision and award of the State Industrial Commission, made on the 20th day of July, 1920.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
I am unable to concur in the opinion of the presiding justice that a school teacher, in carrying on chemical experiments in the performance of her duties prescribed by the Education Law, is engaged in a hazardous-occupation within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The evidence is clear that the claimant was engaged on September 19, 1919, in instructing her class in the class room of the school in Penn Yan when an explosion occurred which resulted in her injury. The learned presiding justice suggests that “ by group 25 of section 2 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law*…
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