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Atchinson v. Colgate Company

Court of Errors and Appeals
Feb 1, 1926
131 A. 921 (N.J. 1926)

Summary

In Atchinson v. Colgate Co., 3 N.J. Mis. R. 451, a laborer, while wheeling a hand truck, helping to unload a truck, fell from a gang plank to the sidewalk, employer claimed that the paresis from which the workman died was not the result of the fall.

Summary of this case from Nardone v. Public Service, c., Co.

Opinion

Submitted October 29, 1925 —

Decided February 1, 1926.

On appeal from the Supreme Court, whose per curiam is printed in 3 N.J. Mis. R. 451.

For the respondent, Erwin Erwin.

For the appellant, Wall, Haight, Carey Hartpence.


The judgment under review herein should be affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the opinion delivered in the Supreme Court.

For affirmance — THE CHANCELLOR, CHIEF JUSTICE, TRENCHARD, PARKER, MINTURN, KATZENBACH, LLOYD, WHITE, GARDNER, VAN BUSKIRK, McGLENNON, KAYS, HETFIELD, JJ. 13.

For reversal — None.


Summaries of

Atchinson v. Colgate Company

Court of Errors and Appeals
Feb 1, 1926
131 A. 921 (N.J. 1926)

In Atchinson v. Colgate Co., 3 N.J. Mis. R. 451, a laborer, while wheeling a hand truck, helping to unload a truck, fell from a gang plank to the sidewalk, employer claimed that the paresis from which the workman died was not the result of the fall.

Summary of this case from Nardone v. Public Service, c., Co.
Case details for

Atchinson v. Colgate Company

Case Details

Full title:ELIZABETH ATCHINSON, RESPONDENT, v. COLGATE COMPANY, APPELLANT

Court:Court of Errors and Appeals

Date published: Feb 1, 1926

Citations

131 A. 921 (N.J. 1926)
102 N.J.L. 425

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