Case Name: FRED LOCKHARDT, PETITIONER-APPELLANT, v. E. DONALD STERNER, STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER, RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1938-01-26
Citations: 119 N.J.L. 342
Docket Number: 
Parties: FRED LOCKHARDT, PETITIONER-APPELLANT, v. E. DONALD STERNER, STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER, RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 119
Pages: 342–343

Head Matter:
FRED LOCKHARDT, PETITIONER-APPELLANT, v. E. DONALD STERNER, STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER, RESPONDENT.
Submitted October 29, 1937
Decided January 26, 1938.
Por the appellant, Grace B. Lewis (David Roskein, of counsel).
Por the respondent, David T. Wileniz, attorney-general, and Robert 8. Hartgrove, assistant attorney-general.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is a workmen's compensation case. After a fall of snow, the foreman of the highway department locally in charge hired a number of unemployed men to work cleaning away the snow. The petitioner was one of these. He had never been so hired before, and was taken on merely for that job, at fifty cents an hour. As the deputy commissioner found, there was no assurance of a recurrence of the employment, outside of the five days that he worked. His fingers became frost bitten, and his claim for compensation was based on that fact.
The deputy commissioner made an award. On appeal to the Common Pleas, this was reversed on the ground that the case was indistinguishable on the facts from Thompson v. Wagner, 103 N. J. L. 230, affirmed in 104 Id. 198. In the Supreme Court, on certiorari, before a single justice, the writ was dismissed, likewise on the authority of the Thompson case. We come to a similar conclusion. The judgment of the Supreme Court will be affirmed, with costs.
For affirmance — The Chancellor, Chibe Justice, Parker, Lloyd, Case, Bodhste, Donges, Heher, Heteield, Dear, Wells, WolesKeil, Raeeerty, Walker, JJ. 14.
For reversal — None.