MATTER OF STRAWS v. FAIL


17 A.D.2d 998 (1962)

In the Matter of the Claim of Samuel Straws, Appellant, v. Martin L. Fail, Doing Business as Dunbar Billiards, et al., Respondents. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

November 21, 1962


On October 7, 1958 claimant, a porter in a billiard parlor, was directed by his employer to accompany a stricken coemployee and friend to a hospital in a taxicab. En route the coemployee collapsed and expired in claimant's arms. According to claimant's evidence emotional strain or stress incident to the occurrence initiated a psychoneurosis characterized by headaches, dizziness, weakness, pain, nausea and insomnia symptomatic of the mental condition which caused a year-long...

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