Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Leonora Shearer et al., Respondents, against The Niagara Falls Power Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1927-05-10
Citations: 245 N.Y. 199
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Leonora Shearer et al., Respondents, against The Niagara Falls Power Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 245
Pages: 199–200

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Leonora Shearer et al., Respondents, against The Niagara Falls Power Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
(Argued May 2, 1927;
decided May 10, 1927.)
Clarence R. Runals for appellant.
Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General (E. C. Aiken of counsel), for respondents.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Order of Appellate Division affirming award of the State Industrial Board should be reversed upon the ground that the award is not supported by any evidence. The presumption arising from the provisions of section 21, subdivision 4, of the Workmen's Compensation Act (Cons. Laws, ch. 67) that death did not result solely from intoxication has been thoroughly and completely rebutted by the employer. The evidence points unerringly to the fact of intoxication and to intoxication as the sole cause of the accident. (Matter of Case, 214 N. Y. 199.)
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the claim dismissed, with costs against the State Industrial Board in the Appellate Division and in this court.
Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman and O'Brien, JJ., concur; Kellogg, J., not sitting.
Ordered accordingly.