175 A.D. 952 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1916
Joseph Claremont received injuries resulting in his death on the 3d day of July, 1914, while engaged in felling a tree at or near Benson Mines, St. Lawrence county, this State. The first claim for compensation, signed by Mary Claremont of Lyon Mountain, aHeged that Joseph G. Claremont, age twenty-three, was in July, 1914, working for J. H. Corbit at Benson Mines, N. V.; that Ovide Ducier had charge of the men, among whom was Joseph G. Claremont; that the men were engaged in lumbering, and while Mr. Claremont was felling a tree, it struck him and caused his death. It further alleged that “ the undersigned, Mary Claremont, is the widow of said Joseph G. Clare