Claim of Parsons v. Delaware & Hudson Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by The Delaware and Hudson Company, employer and self-insurer, from an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, bearing date the 21st day of November, 1914, awarding compensation for injury to the claimant’s eye. The employment in which claimant was engaged is included in group 3 of section 2 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 67; Laws of 1914, chap. 41).
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, J.:
The claimant sustained his injury while at work in the car repair shops of the appellant at Colonie, N. Y. An empty car was brought into the shops to have its safety appliances repaired and for a new roof. The claimant removed some roof boards from the car, and while drawing the nails from them the head of a nail flew off and hit him in the eye. The boards were to be replaced on the car and the roof tinned. The car was in the shops from June seventeenth to July seventeenth. It was the property of the Quebec, Montreal and Southern Railway Company, and its home was in Canada. It…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Illinois Central Railroad v. BehrensSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. IowaSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Barlow v. . Lehigh Valley R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1915
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