MATTER OF MANSFIELD v. GEN. ADJUSTMENT BUREAU


20 N.Y.2d 881 (1967)

In the Matter of the Claim of Barbara A. Mansfield, Respondent, v. General Adjustment Bureau et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 2, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth K. Floyd and Philip J. Caputo for appellants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Henriette Frieder, Ruth Kessler Toch and Daniel Polansky of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, BERGAN, KEATING and BREITEL. Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents and votes to reverse and to dismiss the claim in the following memorandum in which Judge SCILEPPI concurs.


Order affirmed, with costs to respondent Workmen's Compensation Board. (See, e.g., Matter of Graves v. Tide Water Oil Sales Co., 275 N.Y. 583, affg. 249 App. Div. 911; Matter of Lowery v. Riss & Co., 10 A.D.2d 489, mot. for lv. to app. den. 8 N.Y.2d 707.)

VAN VOORHIS, J. (dissenting).

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