MATTER OF ANDERSEN v. NEW YORK HOSP.


5 A.D.2d 730 (1957)

In the Matter of the Claim of Erik Andersen, Respondent, v. New York Hospital et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

December 19, 1957


Claimant was employed as a building superintendent by the New York Hospital. He had two pre-existing physical ailments or physical conditions of which the employer was aware, a fractured right arm with stiffening and atrophy, and epilepsy. Subsequently it was discovered that he had a cardiac condition but there is no evidence in the record that the employer had knowledge of this condition prior to the happening of the accident. On March 15, 1953 claimant was bitten by a rat...

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