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

In the Matter of the Claim of Josephine Schwartzott, Respondent, v. Erie County Highway Department, Appellant, and State Insurance Fund, State Industrial Board, Respondent.
   Decedent suffered from poison ivy poisoning, and later from another skin infection resulting therefrom, and died thereof on September 11, 1933. The amendment to section lO of the Workmen s Compensation Law as to relief workers, in effect May 21, i934, was net retroacti/o, as to this case, and did no 6 affect claimant’s rights which became fixed at the death of deoedent. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Rhodes, McNamee, Bliss and Heffernan, JJ.