Court Opinion

ID: 8506285
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 01:53:00.693489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:50:53.920266
License: Public Domain

Some time, on or about July 3d, 1925, at about three-thirty P. m., the petitioner was employed by the respondent as a blacksmith, working at the respondent’s plant located in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and, while working with some hot metal, the petitioner contends that the metal fell on his foot, receiving a burn and injury from this said accident.
The petitioner claims that Mr. Kelly, the foreman, had knowledge of the said accident, but the respondent filed its answer on the above-mentioned date, stating that it had no knowledge of the accident, and further, that the amputation •of the right foot above the knee was not the result of an accident.
It appears that several days after this accident the petitioner was treated by Doctor Lowrey, of the city of Newark, •county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and on or about July 24th, 1925, the petitioner was admitted into the Elizabeth General Hospital, which is eighteen days after the said accident, and was discharged in an improved condition on August 28th, 1925. On or about October 27th, 1925, and ■on or about November 7th, 1925, while in the Newark City Hospital, an operation and amputation was performed of the leg, and the diagnosis is as follows: “Arterio sclerotic gangrene of right foot. Diabetes mellitus.”
*877Since there is a doubt as to whether or not the petitioner or the respondent could prove their case, and whether or not the petitioner could prove that this injury was caused and arose out of and in the course of his employment, and whether the respondent could prove that the injury was not caused by and did not arise out oE and in the course of the petitioner’s employment, all parties above mentioned had agreed upon and effected a settlement in lump sum for $1,700, and Doctor Samuel A. Shapiro and Doctor James H. Lowrey appeared on behalf of the petitioner, and Doctor Eieppler and Doctor Arlitz on behalf of the respondent.
In agreeing upon such a settlement the respondent has taken in consideration the service of the petitioner, having been in the respondent’s employment for more than twenty-three years.
It is expressly understood and agreed that from the sum of $1,700, $150 will be paid for medical expenses and $200 for counsel fee, leaving a balance of $1,350 to be paid to the petitioner. All expenses will be paid by the petitioner out of the above-stated amount.
The stenographic fee will be paid equally by both parties, and it is also expressly understood and agreed that if the petitioner shall endeavor to obtain an artificial leg the same shall be paid by him.
Harry J. Goas,

Deputy Commissioner.