Decedent was employed as a porter and assigned to a branch bank of the Manufacturers Trust Company in Brooklyn, New York, and resided on the bank premises with his wife in a rent-free apartment supplied by the bank. On October 7, 1951, a heavy rainstorm flooded the basement of the bank, and water rose therein to a height of approximately two feet. Decedent and his wife worked from ten o'clock in the evening until four-thirty the following morning, scooping up the water in...
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