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MATTER OF KNAPP v. SYRACUSE UNIV.

308 N.Y. 274 (1955)

In the Matter of the Claim of James R. Knapp, Respondent, v. Syracuse University, Appellant. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Reargued February 21, 1955.

Decided March 10, 1955

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Madison for appellant.

John J. Quinn, Wendell P. Brown and Roy Wiedersum for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

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

DESMOND J.

In this, as in Matter of Russomanno v. Leon Decorating Co. (306 N.Y. 521), we should take the Disability Benefits Law (Workmen's Compensation Law, art. 9) as we find it, and leave for legislative attention any seeming inequities, or unevenness of coverage.

Claimant, when he fell ill, was employed as a painter in an office building in downtown Syracuse,...

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