Claim of Balcom v. Ellintuch & Yarfitz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Ellintuch & Yarfitz and another, from an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 28th day of September, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, L:
The single question presented by this appeal is whether the State Industrial Commission was in error in holding *549that a moving picture machine was an “ appliance ” within the meaning of the term “appliances” as used in group 12 of section 2 of the Workmen's Compensation Law which provided as a hazardous employment the “ construction, installation, repair or operation of electric light and electric power lines, dynamos, or appliances, and power transmission lines.”
The facts are undisputed. The claimant at the time of sustaining the injury was a licensed operator of an automatic moving…
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