MATTER OF THOMPSON v. TOWN OF PATTERSON


284 A.D. 820 (1954)

In the Matter of the Claim of Emma L. Thompson, Respondent, v. Town of Patterson et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

July 8, 1954.


Decedent, a road laborer, was caught in a landslide while working in a sand bank and injured his right knee. The accident happened on January 23, 1943, and he died, some six years later, on June 5, 1949, of terminal pneumonia which was superimposed upon a condition of the lungs known as bronchiectasis. He was sixty-eight years old when he died. The board found that his death was the natural and unavoidable result of the accident in 1943, and in so doing reversed the decision...

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