Matter of Markell v. . Daniel Green Felt Shoe Company

Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered December 1, 1916, affirming an award of the state industrial commission made under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Claimant while employed as foreman for the defendant felt company and in the discharge of his duties received injuries resulting in the loss of an eye through the act of an employee of a machinery company who had been repairing machines in defendant’s plant and who, approaching' claimant in a dark room, placed his arms about claimant’s neck and drew his…