Claim of Dutcher v. American Express Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, American Express Company, from an award of the State Industrial Commission rendered on the 30th day of January, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The State Industrial Commission made an award to the claimant for the equivalent of the loss of a hand. The single question presented by this appeal is whether the award should have been made for the loss of four fingers only (116 weeks), or for the permanent loss of the use, that is for the equivalent of the loss of the hand (244 weeks). (See Workmen’s Compensation Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 67; Laws of 1914, chap. 41], § 15, subd. 3, as amd. by Laws of 1916, chap. 622.)
On December 8, 1916, while engaged as a transfer man in operating an electric motor truck, as an employee of the…
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