Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Josephine Schwartzott, Respondent, v. Erie County Highway Department, Appellant, and State Insurance Fund, State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1935-01
Citations: 243 A.D. 662
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Josephine Schwartzott, Respondent, v. Erie County Highway Department, Appellant, and State Insurance Fund, State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 243
Pages: 662–663

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Josephine Schwartzott, Respondent, v. Erie County Highway Department, Appellant, and State Insurance Fund, State Industrial Board, Respondent.

Opinion:
Decedent suffered from poison ivy poisoning, and later from another skin infection resulting therefrom, and died thereof on September 11, 1933. The amendment to section lO of the Workmen s Compensation Law as to relief workers, in effect May 21, i934, was net retroacti/o, as to this case, and did no 6 affect claimant's rights which became fixed at the death of deoe dent. Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Rhodes, McNamee, Bliss and Heffernan, JJ.