# Claim of Speregon v. Downtown Delicatessen, Inc.

> New York Court of Appeals · September 29, 1966 · 18 N.Y.2d 736

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5523139

## Case

- **Full name:** In the Matter of the Claim of Edith Speregon v. Downtown Delicatessen, Inc., Workmen's Compensation Board
- **Court:** New York Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** September 29, 1966
- **Citations:** 18 N.Y.2d 736; 274 N.Y.S.2d 346; 221 N.E.2d 171; 1966 N.Y. LEXIS 1106
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Adduced, Bebgan, Bubke, Desmond, Dismiss, Fuld, Ground, Keating, Only, Relationship, Scileppi, Speculative, Support, Testified, Testimony, Upon, Voobhis, Vote, Whose, Witness
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Order affirmed, Avith costs; no opinion.
*738 Concur: Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Fuld, Bubke, Bebgan and Keating. Judges Van Voobhis and Scileppi dissent and vote to reverse and to dismiss the claim upon the following ground: There ivas insufficient medical testimony to establish a causal relationship. The operating neurosurgeon testified to no causal relationship and the only evidence adduced to support it was by an expert witness qualified only in other fields whose opinion was purely speculative.

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