MATTER OF FIELDS v. REBOWSKY


281 A.D. 787 (1953)

In the Matter of the Claim of Edward Fields, Respondent, v. Ida Rebowsky et al., Respondents, and Special Disability Fund, Appellant. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

January 16, 1953.


Claimant was employed as a sales clerk. Employer was his mother-in-law. He fell through a trap door and sustained accidental injuries. Appellant contends that neither employer nor the claimant knew that the latter had pre-existing disabling Paget's disease. There was evidence that claimant's wife and her brother, the son of the employer, knew of the existence of the disease, and that the employer knew something was troubling claimant with his bones. The decision appealed...

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