Claim of Commissioner of Taxes & Finance v. Union Trust Co.

On August 4, 1929, Agnes Northrop died from septicemia following an illness which began in May and had various complications. It has been found that she left her surviving no person entitled to compensation under the Workmen’s -Compensation Law, and an award of $1,000 was made to certain State Special Funds pursuant to subdivisions 8 and 9 of ’section 15 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (as respectively amd. by Laws of 1927, *551chap. 493, and Laws of 1926, chap. 261; subd. 9 since amd. by Laws of 1930, chap. 183).

The decedent was employed by the Union Trust Company of Rochester as charwoman,…