Kowalski v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

While the plaintiff was cleaning the flues of a vertical boiler mounted on a flat car, a rod which he was using contacted with overhead1 wires and he sustained electric burns,‘abrasions, and shock. Compensation for the total incapacity .caused by these injuries was paid under a voluntary agreement. On March 16th, 1931, the compensation commissioner made a finding including the fact that shortly after the plaintiff’s wounds healed and he was discharged from the hospital, “he began to show symptoms of a functional nervous disturbance and these symptoms have persisted to the present time,…