Gross v. Hudson Reade Corp.

The sole objection is that the award is excessive. It is made for fifty per cent loss of use of the left hand. Appellants think that it should have been made solely for loss, or loss of use, of digits.

While claimant was wiping cables on a freight elevator his left hand was caught and considerably crushed and mangled. Some twenty-two stitches were taken in treating the hand; the thumb *633was amputated at the distal joint and there was almost complete ankylosis in the metacarpal joint of the thumb. The index finger was torn and there resulted a complete ankylosis of the distal joint, with marked…