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MATTER OF DOCA v. FED. STEVEDORING CO.

308 N.Y. 44 (1954)

In the Matter of the Claim of Jack Doca, Appellant, v. Federal Stevedoring Company, Inc., et al., Respondents. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 3, 1954

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Hutter and Samuel Friedlander for appellant.

Morgan F. Bisselle and Warren C. Tucker for Federal Stevedoring Company, Inc., and another, respondents.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Roy Wiedersum and Wendell P. Brown of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

LEWIS, Ch. J., DYE, FULD and VAN VOORHIS, JJ., concur with DESMOND, J.; FROESSEL, J., dissents in an opinion in which CONWAY, J., concurs.

DESMOND, J.

This is an unusual workmen's compensation case, since here it is the permanently disabled workman who appeals from an order affirming an award to himself. Presumably, appellant, although he has actually received, from the carrier, payments of workmen's compensation totaling $2,400 and has had his medical and hospital bills to the extent of $14,000 paid by the...

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