Case ID: ny_296/html/0576-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fuld, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Claim of Luther E. Cook, Respondent, against New York Central Railroad Company, Appellant. Workmen’s Compensation Board et al., Respondents.
    Argued June 6, 1946;
    decided July 23, 1946.
    
      
      Robert E. Whalen, Charles E. Nichols and Sherman A. Murphy, Jr. for appellant.
    
      Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Roy W eider sum of counsel), for Workmen’s Compensation Board, respondent.
    
      John M. Cullen for Special Fund for Reopened Cases, respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: . Loughran, Oh. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond and Thacher, JJ.

Fuld, J.,

dissents on the ground that the voluntary and gratuitous payment of drug or medical bills is not “ payment * * * of compensation previously awarded ” within the meaning of section 25-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Taking no part: Dye, J.