Case Name: In the Matter, of the Claim of Bridget Hart, Respondent, against Wilson & Company, Inc., et al., Appellants. The State Industrial Commission, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1919-07-15
Citations: 227 N.Y. 554
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter, of the Claim of Bridget Hart, Respondent, against Wilson & Company, Inc., et al., Appellants. The State Industrial Commission, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 227
Pages: 554–554

Head Matter:
In the Matter, of the Claim of Bridget Hart, Respondent, against Wilson & Company, Inc., et al., Appellants. The State Industrial Commission, Respondent.
Matter of Hart v. Wilson & Co., 186 App. Div. 926, affirmed.
(Argued May 20, 1919;
decided July 15, 1919.)
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial' department, entered November 25, 1918, unanimously affirming an award of the state industrial commission made under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, for the death of claimant’s husband as the result of tetanus. The decedent was a wool puller. There was evidence that he suffered from eczema of the hands. It was contended that the tetanus germ entered his system through the cracks in his skin causing his death.
E. C. Sherwood, William B. Davis and Amos H. Stephens for appellants.
Allan S. Locke for claimant, respondent.
Charles D. Newton, Attorney-General (E. C. Aiken of counsel), for State Industrial Commission, respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Cuddeback, Cardozo, Pound and Crane, JJ. Dissenting: Hiscock, Ch. J., Collin and Andrews, JJ.