Court Opinion

ID: 5387420
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 09:32:32.725443+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:14.837416
License: Public Domain

Appeal by an employer and his insurance carrier from a decision and an award of disability compensation made to claimant by *958the Workmen’s Compensation Board. While in the course of his employment claimant was injured by having slipped and fallen on a slippery floor while engaged in a playful “tussel” with a fellow employee. The evidence sustains the board’s finding that the affair (which includes its precipitating antecedents) which gave rise to the injury was incidental to and arose out of and in the course of his employment. Decision and award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Present — Hill, P. J., Heffernan, Brewster, Foster and Deyo, JJ.