Claim of Frings v. Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certification by the State Industrial Commission of a question to the Appellate Division, Third Department, pursuant to the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Merton E. Lewis, Attorney-General [E. C. Aiken, Deputy Attorney-General of counsel], representing State Industrial Commission.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The question certified by the State Industrial Commission is, “ Did the injury as sustained by the claimant as found by the Commission herein, constitute within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Law the permanent loss of the use of an eye? ”
The claimant was in the employ of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company at Buffalo, N. Y., as an assembler of motor car vehicles. In July, 1916, while chipping a casting he was struck in the right eye with a sharp piece of steel which penetrated the cornea, rupturing the lens, causing traumatic cataract resulting in acute glaucoma which ■…
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