Claim of Hobertis v. Columbia Shirt Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Columbia Shirt Company, Inc., and another, from an award and order of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the Albany office of the Commission on the 5th day of June, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
Lyon, J.:
The claimant lost the use of an eye. She was near sighted, having not to exceed fifty per cent vision. The appellants *398claim she should only be allowed for the loss of one-half vision. The Commission made an award for the permanent loss of the use of an eye. From such an award this appeal is taken.
The statute does not provide that the loss of the use of an eye shall be compensated by an award based upon the amount of vision which existed previous to the accident, whether it be fifty per cent or eighty per cent of vision lost. It awards specific compensation for the loss of an eye. It…
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