Claim of Berman v. Reliance Metal Spinning & Stamping Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Reliance Metal Spinning and Stamping Company and another, from a decision and award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 13th day of December, 1918, confirming a prior award. An appeal is also taken from said prior award.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
Morris Berman is the owner of a considerable number of shares of stock in the Reliance Metal Spuming and Stamping Company, and is the treasurer of such company, though his duties as treasurer appear to be comparatively unimportant. He was on July 30, 1918, at the time of the accident resulting in the loss of four of his fingers on the right hand, employed as manager of the plant, and was engaged in instructing an employee in the use of a machine. No question is raised as to the general character of his employment; no one questions that he was injured while in the discharge of his…
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