MATTER OF MURPHY v. DOWNTOWN ASS'N


278 A.D. 730 (1951)

In the Matter of the Claim of James Murphy for Himself and on His Death by Walter B. Cooke, Inc., for Funeral Expenses and by Special Funds Conservation Committee for Statutory Death Benefits Award, Respondents, v. Downtown Association et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

March 14, 1951.


The decedent was employed as a dishwasher in the luncheon club operated by his employer. On June 3, 1947, he was found lying on the floor at the foot of a marble stairway leading from the second floor to the main floor of the employer's premises. The accident was unwitnessed. Because of the fall he sustained accidental injuries in the nature of linear fractures of the parietal bones of the head, subarachnoid, intra-cerebral hemorrhage, semi-unconsciousness with post-traumatic...

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