Claim of Rubenstein v. Pechter Baking Co.

The appeal is from an award for total loss of use of the left eye. The loss of use of the eye (160 weeks under Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 15, subd. 3, e, as amd. by Laws of 1924, chap. 317; Id. p, r) was awarded to run from the date when a previous schedule award (eighty-one and one-third weeks for loss of use of one-third of a hand under § 15, subd. 3, c, s), running from the date of accident, had terminated and which had been paid. The question is whether one schedule award for the loss of use of a member may be made to begin at the conclusion of another schedule award for loss or…