MATTER OF JOHNSON v. SWIFT & CO., INC.


10 A.D.2d 656 (1960)

In the Matter of the Claim of Irene M. Johnson, Respondent, v. Swift & Company, Inc., et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

February 17, 1960


The deceased employee was a meat truck driver whose job involved loading meat on the truck and then unloading it at various stores. On the morning of October 30, 1956, at his first stop he was unloading quarters of beef weighing about 138 pounds and lambs weighing 40 to 45 pounds. These he carried from the truck to the store, a distance of 68 feet, up four steps and then into the store. He complained that he could not breathe and that he did not feel well. Thereafter he had...

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