214 A.D. 512 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1925
The claimant received an injury to his left eye on May 12, 1923. Tests subsequently made showed the vision of the left eye, according to the Snellen method, to be 20 /100. The Industrial Board made an award as for the total loss of an eye. It is provided in the Workmen’s Compensation Law, in section 15, subdivision 3, paragraph p, as follows: “ Compensation for loss of binocular vision or for eighty per centum or more of the vision of an eye shall be the same as for loss of the eye.” The Industrial Board, in making the award, assumed that the Snellen symbol 20/100 signified the retention of twenty
The award should be reversed and the claim remitted, with costs against the State Industrial Board to abide the event.
AH concur.
Award reversed and matter remitted, with costs against the State Industrial Board to abide the event.