Claim of Polucci v. Emerson Norris Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Emerson Norris Co. and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the New York office of the said Commission on the 4th day of June, 1920, and also from an order of said Commission entered in its New York office on the 4th day of August, 1920, denying the application of the defendants to reopen the case and affirming the award theretofore made.
1Opinion of the Court
Kiley, J. :
Claimant is a pattern maker, and while so engaged in the plant of his .employer at Tuckahoe, Westchester county, N. Y., on February 2, 1918, met with an accident cutting off his fourth finger and badly crushing the bone of the third finger. Employer and employee filed an agreement for compensation at fifteen dollars per week which was approved by the State Industrial Commission and an award made accordingly. The basis of this award was “ twenty-five weeks for loss of use of third finger and fifteen weeks for loss of fourth finger; total, forty weeks, and case closed.” This decision…
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