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

In the Matter of the Claim of Edward Birdsall against General Electric Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
    
      Workmen’s Compensation Law — strained back — award for total disability affirmed.
    
    
      Birdsall v. General Electric Co., 207 App. Div. 876, affirmed.
    (Argued April 1, 1924;
    decided April 15, 1924.)
    Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered December 5, 1923, affirming an award of the state industrial board made under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant, a molder in the employ of defendant, strained his back in the course of his employment. Defendant contended that there was no evidence or finding that claimant was totally disabled during any part of the period covered by the award.
    
      Richmond Moot for appellant.
    
      Carl Sherman, Attorney-General (E. C. Aiken of counsel), for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.