253 A.D. 851 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1938
The employer and insurance carrier have appealed from an award of death benefits made by the State Industrial Board to the widow and minor son of William Karp, the deceased employee. Appellants contend that decedent’s death did not result from accidental injuries and that there is no causal relation between the accident and death. Decedent was employed as a taxi driver, and on July 20,1936, he suffered accidental injuries which resulted in his death on August 2, 1936. On July 20, 1936, the cab operated by decedent was parked on the south side of West Forty-seventh street in the city of New York. It was raining, and decedent and another taxi driver were standing in the protection of a building a few feet distant from where the decedent’s cab was parked. There was a puddle of water in the gutter
