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MATTER OF RIZZO v. SYRACUSE UNIV.

6 A.D.2d 521 (1958)

In the Matter of the Claim of Joseph E. Rizzo, Jr., Respondent, v. Syracuse University et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

December 2, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hancock, Dorr, Ryan & Shove (John F. Gates of counsel), for appellants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Gilbert M. Landy and Roy Wiedersum of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

Morris Garber for claimant-respondent.

FOSTER, P. J., GIBSON, HERLIHY and REYNOLDS, JJ., concur.

BERGAN, J.

Claimant was employed by Syracuse University in a scientific research project concerned with cosmic rays. He was assigned to a laboratory at Echo Lake, Colorado, located in an isolated section of the Rocky Mountains at an altitude of 10,000 feet. The nearest town was 14 miles away.

The work went on seven days a week; the hours were long and irregular. The claimant and other physicists and research...

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