Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of James V. Matessa, Respondent, against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1941-03-12
Citations: 261 A.D. 1020
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of James V. Matessa, Respondent, against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 261
Pages: 1020–1020

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of James V. Matessa, Respondent, against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent.

Opinion:
It is the province of the State Industrial Board to settle records on appeal in the first instance. Appeals may be taken from their determination. The employer, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, raises only one question, namely, that claimant was injured while engaged in interstate commerce. The claimant also appeals on the ground of inadequate rate and improper classification. The employer should not be required to print more of a record than is necessary to disclose its own assertion of error. If the claimant on his appeal has not funds sufficient to print that part of the record which is necessary to print, application should be made to this court for leave to prosecute the cross-appeal upon typewritten record. 1. The motion of the employer-appellant to proceed on a short record with its appeals from the awards of compensation by the referee and [State] Industrial Board is dismissed for lack of original jurisdiction and without prejudice to the raising of this question on its appeal from the order of settlement. 2. The motion of the employer-appellant for leave to dispense with the printing of the proposed case on appeal from the awards as a part of the record on appeal from the order of January 16, 1941, and that the file of the [State] Industrial Board be handed up to this court on the argument of the appeal from said order with the same force and effect as though included in the printed record on appeal from the order and for the certification of such a record on appeal by the [State] Industrial Board is granted, with ten dollars costs to the employer-appellant against the State Industrial Board. 3. The motion of the claimant-appellant to dismiss the appeals by the employer from the awards of compensation are denied, without costs. 4. The motion of the claimant-appellant to dismiss the appeal by the employer from the order of settlement made by the [State] Industrial Board on January 16,1941, is denied, without costs. Crapser, Acting P. J., Bliss, Heffernan, Sehenck and Foster, JJ., concur; Hill, P. J., taking no part.