MATTER OF HUNTER v. GOODSTEIN BROS.


2 A.D.2d 387 (1956)

In the Matter of the Claims of Elbert Hunter et al., Respondents, and Letha Williams, on Behalf of James Williams, an Infant, Appellant, v. Goodstein Bros. et al., Appellants-Respondents. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

November 9, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Hayes, James J. Carroll and Victor Fiddler for Goodstein Bros. and another, appellants-respondents.

George Weisberg and Albert M. Aronowitz for claimants.

Jacob K. Javits, Attorney-General (Carl Madonick and Roy Wiedersum of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

FOSTER, P. J., HALPERN, ZELLER and GIBSON, JJ., concur.


COON, J.

The employer and carrier first challenge the finding of accident and causal relation. Decedent was employed as a "piece goods man" by a manufacturer of men's clothing, and his duties required him to handle bolts and cloth weighing up to a maximum of 250 pounds. He was 38 years of age and, up to the time of the alleged accident, had been asymptomatic. On May 11, 1951, while decedent was handling a bolt...

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