MATTER OF SHAPIRO v. CENT. POULTRY CORP.


284 A.D. 309 (1954)

In the Matter of the Claim of Morris M. Shapiro, Respondent, v. Central Poultry Corporation et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

June 18, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur B. Erenstoft for appellants.

George Rifkin for claimant-respondent.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (John J. Quinn and Roy Wiedersum of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

FOSTER, P. J., BERGAN, HALPERN and IMRIE, JJ., concur.


COON, J.

An award has been made to claimant for disability under the Disability Benefits Law (Workmen's Compensation Law, art. 9), and the employer and carrier appeal from such award on the ground that claimant's disability was not the result of "injury or sickness", which the statute prescribes.

Claimant was a schochet and was employed to slaughter chickens by his employer. In mid-June, 1951, a member...

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