Matter of Uhl v. . the Hartwood Club
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in. the third judicial department, entered March 16, 1911, affirming an award of the state industrial commission under the Workmen’s Compensation Law.
1Per curiam
The commission has found that the appellant was engaged in the operation of a country club and in connection therewith in the business of ice harvesting, forestry and logging; that it conducted this business for pecuniary gain; that Uhl was at the time of his death employed by it as a lumberman and while so employed was killed.
We think there was ample evidence to support these findings.
Whether a club or an individual owning a tract of woodland is or is not engaged in forestry and logging for pecuniary gain is a question of degree. It could not be said that the owner of a city lot who cut a…
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