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MATTER OF McCANN v. WALSH CONSTR. CO.

282 A.D. 444 (1953)

In the Matter of the Claim of Paul McCann, Respondent, v. Walsh Construction Co. et al., Appellants, and Special Funds Conservation Committee, Respondent. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

July 2, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Katzen, Victor Fiddler and George J. Hayes for appellants.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Roy Wiedersum and Harry Pastor of counsel), for the Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

William Doblin for claimant-respondent.

John M. Cullen for Special Funds, respondent.

FOSTER, P. J., BERGAN, COON and IMRIE, JJ., concur.

HALPERN, J.

This appeal brings up for consideration the question of the construction and constitutionality of the amendments to the Workmen's Compensation Law with respect to "compressed air illness" adopted in 1946 and 1947 (L. 1946, ch. 642; L. 1947, ch. 624).

The claimant-respondent had been employed from 1911 to 1938 by various construction companies upon jobs requiring him to work in compressed air...

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