Oken v. Benjamin & Louis Mager

The one question is the amount of the award. For loss of use of one-third of a fourth finger an award has been made covering a period of five weeks (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 15, subd. 3, If 1) as follows: For two weeks from October twenty-ninth to November twelfth, at twenty-five dollars per week, and for three weeks thereafter at twenty dollars. Claimant was injured October twenty-ninth, and during the following two weeks only was totally disabled. The injury did not result in a disability for more than forty-nine days; compensation riiay not be allowed for the first seven days.…