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- Title: Matter Howard B. Group v. J. Raymond Mcgovern
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 09, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act to review a determination of the Comptroller of the State of New York
which denied the application of petitioner, a member of the State Employees' Retirement System, for accidental disability
retirement. On January 26, 1950, in the course of his employment as a ranger by the Division of Parks in the State Conservation
Department, petitioner, with three co-employees, while carrying a utility pole up a slippery bank slipped and went down on
one knee. He arose in "a matter of seconds" and immediately felt chest pain but continued to work that day and for some days
thereafter, with some pain continuing. He sustained a severe attack of pain on February 5, 1950 when his condition became
such as to disable him and was subsequently diagnosed as acute myocardial infarction. The Comptroller found that the "event"
of January 26, 1950 did not constitute "an accident, within the meaning of the term as used in Section 79 of the Civil Service
Law." (The provisions of that section now appear without substantial change in the Retirement and Social Security Law, § 63.)
The only medical testimony was that adduced from petitioner's physician who discounted the effect of petitioner's slipping
and considered that "the salient factor" was physical exertion in "the hard job of carrying the poles." The Comptroller's
authority to determine that such exertion did not constitute an accident is now abundantly clear and we may not disturb his
finding. (Matter of Croshier v. Levitt, 5 N.Y.2d 259.) Determination unanimously confirmed, without costs. Present - Foster,
P.J., Coon, Gibson, Herlihy and Reynolds, JJ.