Parchefsky v. Kroll Bros.

This is an appeal by the employer and the Maryland Casualty Company, the insurer, from an award to claimant in the sum of $1,626.67 for thirty-three and one-third per cent permanent loss of use of the right hand.

It is undisputed that claimant, a minor, was employed as a general worker and that on August 13, 1929, he suffered a cut on the right wrist from a broken water bottle. He was treated therefor at the Fordham Hospital and at a clinic maintained by the insurance carrier pursuant to the carrier’s directions. Thereafter claimant and his father instituted actions in the Supreme Court of…