Legal Opinion
Claim of Farley v. Martin Mechanical Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 20, 1969PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Staley, Jr., J.
This is an appeal by the employer and its insurance carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed March 20,1968.
On April 26, 1949 the claimant, a steamfitter in the course of his employment, sustained an accidental injury to his left eye and received a schedule award for 100% loss of binocular vision. (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 15, subd. 3, par. p.) In addition, claimant was found to have a total permanent disability because his right eye had been amblyopic since childhood, and he only had 20/200 vision in his right eye prior to the accident.
Thereafter,…
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