MATTER OF CROSHIER v. LEVITT


5 A.D.2d 941 (1958)

In the Matter of Dorothy M. Croshier, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of The State of New York, Respondent

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

March 27, 1958


The record before us seems so developed and the findings so cast as to test the area of permissible decision by the Comptroller under a claim of "accident" within the frame of the decision in Matter of Owens v. McGovern (309 N.Y. 449). Here there is a finding of fact that the employee, who was a forest ranger, was fighting a forest fire in a mountain area; was "overcome by exhaustion and collapsed" and died; and a specific finding that...

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