CALLAHAN v. STATE OF NEW YORK


19 A.D.2d 437 (1963)

Robert Callahan, Appellant, v. State of New York, Respondent. (Claim No. 34105.)

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

November 8, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome B. Tobias and Everett Johns for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Edwin R. Oberwager and Paxton Blair of counsel), for respondent.

BERGAN, P. J., REYNOLDS and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.


GIBSON, J.

Claimant, while an inmate of a State prison and working in the prison workshop, was injured when his hand and arm were caught between the rollers of a corrugating machine, used to process garbage cans. Claimant testified that upon completing one operation he manipulated the trip safety switch and reached for the processed can; that when the switch did not stop the machine, his fingers were drawn in...

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