MATTER OF SULLIVAN v. B & A CONSTR., INC.


307 N.Y. 161 (1954)

In the Matter of the Claim of Edward Sullivan, Respondent, v. B & A Construction, Inc., et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 3, 1954


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Urban S. Mulvehill for B & A Construction, Inc., and another, appellants.

John T. DeGraff and John E. Holt-Harris, Jr., for A. L. Turner and another, appellants.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Daniel Polansky, Wendell P. Brown, Roy Wiedersum and Gilbert M. Landy of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

LEWIS, Ch. J., CONWAY, DESMOND, DYE, FROESSEL and VAN VOORHIS, JJ., concur.


FULD, J.

Claimant, a painter by trade, sustained, in the course of two different employments, compensable injuries to his right knee. In March of 1948, while in the employ of appellant B & A Construction, Inc., he slipped on a paint brush and caught his right leg on a step; again, in June, 1949, while employed by appellant A. L. Turner, a ladder which he was climbing broke and he struck and twisted the same leg. As a result...

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