MATTER OF CARPENTER v. SIBLEY, LINDSAY & CURR CO.


277 A.D. 801 (1950)

In the Matter of the Claim of Beulah Carpenter, Respondent, v. Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co. et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

May 3, 1950.


There is evidence that the physical efforts incident to the usual course of claimant's employment was a predisposing cause of the detachment of the retina of claimant's long-standing myopic right eye, which occurred as she alighted from a bus on her way home at the end of her day's work. She was and for many years had been a saleswoman in the book department of her employer's department store. The board was correct in rescinding or receding from their prior decision which...

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