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MATTER OF FARBER v. U. S. TRUCKING CORP.

26 N.Y.2d 44 (1970)

In the Matter of the Claim of Fannie Farber, Respondent, v. U. S. Trucking Corp., Appellant. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided January 8, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacques Smit and Dominic A. Morabito for appellant.

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

Jeannette H. Harris and Louis Raybin for claimant-respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BREITEL and JASEN concur; Judge GIBSON taking no part.

BERGAN, J.

To sustain her status as the wife of the deceased employee of appellant U. S. Trucking Corporation, claimant relies on two separate grounds: that a ceremonial marriage contracted in New York was valid; and, in any event, that the parties later contracted a valid common-law marriage in Florida according to Florida law. The decision of the Workmen's Compensation Board was that claimant was the wife of...

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