MATTER OF SHANNON v. GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT


29 N.Y.2d 786 (1971)

In the Matter of the Claim of Robert Shannon, Respondent, v. Grumman Aircraft et al., Appellants, and Special Disability Fund, Respondent. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 17, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne G. Kafka for appellants.

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

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, the award of the Workmen's Compensation Board annulled, and the claim dismissed, without costs. The mere coincidence of employment in a plant with a heavy dust environment and claimant's developing illness, the "speculative conclusion" by claimant's physician that there is possible causation, and the equivocal fact that other employees developed similar symptoms...

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