MATTER OF PLAFKER v. P. & J. LEWIS, INC.


1 A.D.2d 711 (1955)

In the Matter of the Claim of Herman Plafker, Appellant, v. P. & J. Lewis, Inc. and The State Insurance Fund, Respondents. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

December 23, 1955


Claimant, fifty-eight years of age, employed as a clothing cutter for the employer for thirty years, collapsed at his place of employment on August 31, 1951. A doctor was called to the plant and after claimant's condition had been diagnosed as a coronary occlusion, he was immediately hospitalized. Claimant testified that as he lifted a bolt of cloth weighing seventy-five to ninety pounds from the floor to the table just before his collapse, he felt a sharp pain in his chest...

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