In Re the Claims of Petrie
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 5, 1915, which confirmed an award of the state workmen’s compensation commission. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered January 5, 1915, which confirmed an award of the state workmen’s compensation commission. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The award by the state workmen’s compensation commission to Thomas Petrie of two-thirds of his weekly wages for twelve and one-half weeks as for the loss of his third finger was, in view of the facts found by the commission, unauthorized by the Workmen’s Compensation Law. (L. 1918, ch. 816, § 15.) The Workmen’s Compensation Law being in…
1Opinion of the CourtHiscock, J.
This appeal presents to this court for the first time for construction, provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Chapter 816, Laws of 1913). No attack is made upon the constitutionality of the act. The provisions thus presented for construction are those covering compensation for the loss of a phalange of a finger.
While the claimant was in the employ of the appellant, Oneida Steel Pulley Company, he met with an accident which, amongst other things, resulted in injury to and subsequent amputation of part of the first phalange of his third finger, and he thereafter filed a claim for…
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