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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Claim of Gertrude I. Eldridge, Appellant, v. Endicott-Johnson & Co., et al., Respondents. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
    
      Workmen’s compensation — insufficiency of evidence to sustain contention that employee in tannery contracted anthrax poisoning from handling hides.
    
    
      Eldridge v. Endicott, Johnson & Co., 202 App. Div. 767, affirmed.
    (Submitted November 21,1922;
    decided December 12, 1922.)
    Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered May 2, 1922, unanimously affirming a determination of' the state industrial board denying compensation to claimant under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant’s husband, an employee in defendant’s tannery, died of anthrax poisoning. It was contended that he became infected while handling hides at his work. The state industrial commission held that the evidence did not sustain such contention. (See 228 N. Y. 21.)
    
      Rollin W. Meeker and Laverne M. Twining for appellant.
    
      Walter L. Glenney and Bertrand L. Pettigrew for respondents.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.