MATTER OF EPSTEIN v. CITY OF NEW YORK


283 A.D. 751 (1954)

In the Matter of the Claim of Beatrice Epstein, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

February 26, 1954.


The City of New York, self-insured employer, claims that the decedent committed suicide. He was found dead on April 19, 1949, on a stairway landing between the fourth and fifth floors of the Municipal Building. The decedent, a civil engineer, was employed by the city comptroller to inspect work done for the city and to determine the propriety of bills submitted for payment. His office was on the sixth floor. The cafeteria was on the twenty-sixth floor but one bank of elevators...

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