220 A.D. 63 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1927
It is conceded that claimant is an alien and a subject of France. He was injured on June 5, 1924, while working on an automobile of his employer at Oyster Bay. His right wrist was fractured. The award was for one-third loss of use of right hand and for eighty-one and one-third weeks at $20 per week, amounting to $1,626.67. The carrier paid up to February 5, 1925, and on May 21, 1925, hearing that claimant had gone to France, requested the Industrial Board, in writing, to commute the remaining payments in compliance with the Workmen’s Com
The award should be reversed and the claim remitted to the Industrial Board with instructions to grant a commutation as of May 21, 1925.
Van Kirk, Acting P. J., Hinman, McCann, Davis and Whitmyer, JJ., concur.
Award reversed and claim remitted, with costs against the State Industrial Board to abide the event.