MATTER OF OWENS v. McGOVERN


283 A.D. 898 (1954)

In the Matter of Edith E. Owens, Petitioner, v. J. Raymond McGovern, as Comptroller of The State of New York, Respondent

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

April 2, 1954.


The decedent had been employed as a junior civil engineer for many years in the New York State Department of Public Works. On March 12, 1951, the decedent was a member of a survey party engaged in a staking out operation on a right of way. In the course of this work, he was required to climb a steep slope on the north side of Bear Mountain in the lower Hudson valley. The slope was icy and frozen and was covered with snow. The decedent complained of a pain in his chest and...

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