Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Anna Legerski, Respondent, against Childs Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1937-01-20
Citations: 249 A.D. 901
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Anna Legerski, Respondent, against Childs Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 249
Pages: 901–901

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Anna Legerski, Respondent, against Childs Company, Appellant. State Industrial Board, Respondent.

Opinion:
Appeal by employer from an award of death benefits to the widow and minor children of Stanley Legerski, deceased employee. The only question presented is whether the hearsay evidence as to occurrence of the accident is sufficiently corroborated. Deceased was a butcher by trade and employed as a storeroom man by his employer. On April 14,1935, while working in one of the restaurants conducted by his employer in Buffalo he was detailed to aid the chef. While assisting the chef he cut his right thumb while opening a can. Deceased reported the accident to the manager of the employer on April 16, 1935, at which time the manager saw the laceration to the thumb and described it as about one-half inch long and of the width of a pencil. The thumb became infected and the infection progressed to the right arm necessitating lancing and death occurred on April 23,1935, from general septicemia. Dr. Long who treated deceased on April 16, 1935, at the direction of the employer received a statement from the deceased as to how the accident occurred. He described the injury as " infected laceration of the right thumb " with " infection extending up right arm " and said that the accident was a competent producing cause of the injury. Deceased also told his wife as to the occurrence of the accident and she saw the injury. Deceased made like declarations to his family physician, to other physicians who examined the injured member and to a number of fellow employees. The employer's first report of injury described the nature of such injury as, " said to be cut on thumb." There is evidence to sustain the finding of the Industrial Board. (Matter of Handelman v. Knickerbocker Ice Co., 243 App. Div. 660.) Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the State Industrial Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Rhodes, McMamee, Bliss and Heffernan, JJ.