Matter of Grammici v. . Zinn
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from, an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered March 15, 1916, affirming an award of the State Industrial Commission under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. There was no'evidence supporting the finding and award of the commission, of August eighteenth, allowing claimant for the entire loss of use of the hand. (Matter of Rockwell v. Lewis, 168 App. Div. 674.)
1Opinion of the CourtCollin, J.
The claimant was awarded compensation at the rate of $5.77 weekly for a period of 244 weeks, for the equivalent of the loss of a hand. The Appellate Division by a decision not unanimous affirmed the award.
The Workmen’s Compensation Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 67), in subdivision 3 of section 15, provides three rates of compensation relating to the hand. -The compensation shall he sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly wages and shall.he paid to the employee for (1) the loss of a thumb, sixty weeks; the loss of a first finger, forty-six weeks; the loss of a second finger, thirty…
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