MATTER OF MORRISSEY v. McGOVERN


1 A.D.2d 746 (1955)

In the Matter of Theresa M. Morrissey, Petitioner, v. J. Raymond McGovern, as Comptroller of The State of New York, Respondent

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

December 23, 1955


The decedent died while fighting a fire. The decedent and three other firemen were engaged in carrying injured firemen by stretcher to an ambulance. As the firemen were hurrying back from the ambulance to pick up another injured fireman, they looked back and found the decedent lying face down on the ground (in the language of the Comptroller's finding) "across two hose lines, with his foot hooked in one of them". The decedent died shortly thereafter in an ambulance while...

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