Claim of Hamilton v. Incorporated Village of Lynbrook

This is an appeal by the State Insurance Fund, the insurance carrier of the village of Lynbrook, from an award of the State Industrial Board in claimant’s favor. Claimant was employed as a police officer by the village of Lynbrook. On June 16, 1933, while engaged in the regular course of his employment apprehending a burglar, he was struck on the head with a blunt instrument by the alleged criminal, as a result of which he sustained a concussion of the brain and hematoma of the head and was caused to suffer optic atrophy of the eyes with a total permanent loss of vision in both eyes. Claimant…