Claim of Santos v. Guemes

— Claimant, a barber, was injured in the course of his employment while working in employer-appellant’s street level barbershop located at 2373 Eighth Avenue near 126th Street in the Harlem section of Hew York City at 9:00 p.m. in October, 1944, when he was shot in the cheek by a bullet fired into the shop by someone outside during the course of a street fight between rival gangs of teen-age ruffians. The shot was fired by an unknown one of a group of fighters at another of a rival group who had run through the open doorway of the barbershop for haven. There was evidence to support the…