Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 15, 1950 (Claim of Ahern v. South Buffalo Railway Co.)

This is an appeal by a self-insured employer from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which denied the employer’s application for a review and a rehearing of a referee’s decision and award allowing disability compensation to the widow of Thomas J. Ahern, the deceased employee. It is conceded that decedent was employed as a switchman by the appellant at Lackawanna, New York.