33 A.D.2d 1082 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1970
Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed January 22, 1968. Claimant was employed by a fraternity as a cook and housekeeper for about 35 years until she retired on July 30, 1963. She and her husband, engaged as a maintenance man, received a joint salary of $500 per month plus room and board. In 1966 claimant made a claim for workmen’s compensation benefits for a back injury sustained on June 10, 1963 when she attempted to lift a box of books, weighing 70 to 80 pounds, at the fraternity house. The board found that claimant was totally disabled as a result of the 1963 accident and awarded benefits from March 7, 1966. Claimant waited almost three years before filing a claim for benefits, but the board found that the payment of wages to her after said injury was an advance payment of compensation and a waiver of the two-year Statute