Case Name: FLORENCE ROGERS, PETITIONER, v. NATIONAL SILK DYEING COMPANY, RESPONDENT
Court: New Jersey Department of Labor, Workmen's Compensation Bureau
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1928
Citations: 6 N.J. Misc. 826
Docket Number: 
Parties: FLORENCE ROGERS, PETITIONER, v. NATIONAL SILK DYEING COMPANY, RESPONDENT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 826–827

Head Matter:
New Jersey Department of Labor, Workmen’s Compensation Bureau.
FLORENCE ROGERS, PETITIONER, v. NATIONAL SILK DYEING COMPANY, RESPONDENT.
For the petitioner, Donald M. Waesche.
For the respondent, Charles W. Broadhurst.

Opinion:
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1. Simeon A. Rogers, of 269 Falmouth avenue, East Paterson, New Jersey, was on November 26th, 1926, and for sometime prior thereto, employed by the respondent as a laborer, his rate of pay being $22 per week.
2. He died February 11th, 1921, at the Paterson General Hospital from a strangulated hernia.
• 3. On November 24th, 1926, Simeon A. Rogers, upon the conclusion of the day's work, complained of pain and of not feeling well to the petitioner's wife, Florence Rogers. He was later confined to his bed and did not work for the next two days. He returned to work after this time and worked fairly steady up to February 12th, 1921, as appears from the records of the company. On this date he became ill and a Dr. Curtis was called. Dr. Curtis saw him on February 14th, 15th and 16th, 1921. He ordered him to the hospital on February 16th, 1921. Simeon A. Rogers died in the Paterson General Hospital on February 11th, 1921, about twenty-four hours after his admission.
4. The petitioner, Florence Rogers, testified that on November 26th, 1926, she, for the first time, saw her husband's side, and at that time there appeared to be a black and blue spot on his left side in the region of his hip, which was some four inches in size and somewhat swollen.
5. It was stipulated by counsel that Dr. Curtis, if called as a witness, would testify that when he examined the decedent on February 14th, 1927, he found that he had a hernia at about the place where Mrs. Eogers had testified the black and blue area was situated. It definitely appears that no physician was consulted from November 24th, 1926, to Feb-, ruary 15th, 1927. The doctor would further have testified that, in his opinion, the hernia could be due to a blow and that, in his opinion, it did not exist longer than about November 24th, 1926. He would further testify that the death was due to the hernia.
Application was made at the conclusion of petitioner's case, by counsel for the respondent, for dismissal of the proceedings on the following grounds — first, there was no evidence before the court that the hernia from which Simeon A. Eogers died was caused by an accident' arising out of and in the course of his employment with the respondent on November 24th, 1926, as claimed; secondly, that the uncontradicted proof showed deceased did not consult a physician within twenty-four hours from the date of any alleged accident, as required by the statute; thirdly, that the petitioner failed to prove prostration as required by the act; fourth, that the petitioner failed to prove the descent immediately followed the cause; fifth, that petitioner failed to prove notice to the respondent within twenty-four hours, as required by the act. After consideration of the argument of counsel on the matter, I am of the opinion that the motion should be granted for the reasons stated.
Harry J. Goas, Deputy Commissioner.