MATTER OF McCONNELL v. TOWN OF WHITESTOWN


285 A.D. 1098 (1955)

In the Matter of the Claim of Dorothy E. McConnell, Respondent, v. Town of Whitestown et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

April 1, 1955.


There is no controversy concerning the accidental nature of the death. In the late afternoon of May 10, 1949, decedent's body was found within the wire fence of a so-called abandoned cemetery in the appellant town. Position of the body suggested that, while carrying a shotgun and in the course of entering the cemetery through or under a wire fence, the accidental discharge of the gun caused his death about four o'clock that afternoon. Deceased was the elected superintendent...

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