258 A.D. 1012 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1940
This is an appeal by the State Insurance Fund, the insurance carrier of the village of Lynbrook, from an award of the State Industrial Board in claimant’s favor. Claimant was employed as a police officer by the village of Lynbrook. On June 16, 1933, while engaged in the regular course of his employment apprehending a burglar, he was struck on the head with a blunt instrument by the alleged criminal, as a result of which he sustained a concussion of the brain and hematoma of the head and was caused to suffer optic atrophy of the eyes with a total permanent loss of vision in both eyes. Claimant immediately reported his injuries to his superior officer and the village surgeon ordered him to his home at three-twenty a. m. His hours of employment were from twelve o’clock midnight to eight o’clock a. m. Claimant was paid full wages the day of the injury. He returned to work the following day and continued his services until August 1, 1935. On that day he discovered that he was suffering