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MATTER OF CRAWLEY v. FAILLA

6 N.Y.2d 57 (1959)

In the Matter of the Claim of Agnes Crawley, Claimant, v. Charles Failla et al., Appellants, and Margaret Reuter et al., Respondents. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 21, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph S. Stowell and Joseph D. Edwards for appellants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Daniel Polansky, Paxton Blair and Roy Wiedersum of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

William F. Fischer, Jr., and Herbert Hastings, Jr., for Margaret Reuter and another, respondents.

Chief Judge CONWAY and Judges DESMOND, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE concur with Judge FULD; Judge DYE dissents in a separate opinion.

FULD, J.

The appeal, here by our permission, involves the reach of our decision in Matter of Meszaros v. Goldman and Matter of Braunstein v. General Mar. Repair (307 N.Y. 296) and calls upon us to decide whether, in the case of successive industrial accidents or disablements resulting from occupational disease, an award may be made against the last employer, based not...

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