MATTER OF HARKINS v. NEW YORK DOCK CO.


280 A.D. 843 (1952)

In the Matter of the Claim of Hugh Harkins, Respondent, v. New York Dock Company, Appellant, and Special Disability Fund, Respondent. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

June 13, 1952.


When claimant was first employed as a boy by appellant he had an ankylosed condition of the right knee, a stiff right leg and a decided limp. At some time during the course of years from 1913 to 1934 he also suffered osteomyelitis in the right knee. In 1934 he was examined by a physician for the employer and, in addition to a shortness of the right leg and ankylosis in the right knee, was found to have had an old infection in the right knee. He was classed as a "poor risk...

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