Guyon v. Standard Wall Paper Co.

Cochrane, P.. J.:

The defense is that there was no accident. The finding of the Board is that “ on November 4, 1922, while the said William H. Guyon was engaged in the regular course of his employment, and while working for his employer at Hudson Falls, New York, and while pouring water on gilt dust thereat, small particles of the said gilt dust entered claimant’s right eye;” that the gilt dust infected the eye on account of which the claimant has sustained the loss of useful vision of twenty-five per cent thereof. The gilt dust was used for gilding wall paper manufactured by the employer. The…