Emery v. Heintz Manufacturing Co.

Lewis, J.,

The disposition of this appeal from an award of compensation depends on whether claimant lost the use of his right hand. In the course of his employment, the claimant, on Sept. 29, 1926, met with an accident, as a result of which he suffered the amputation of the four fingers of his right hand, the line of amputation passing just in front of the knuckles. At the hearing de novo, claimant testified that he was at that time engaged in the work of rubbing down paints, in the course of which the only use he made of his right hand was “just pushing with the lower part of the palm.” He…