Summary
In Markell v. Daniel Green Felt Shoe Co., 221 N.Y. 493, 116 N.E. 1060, it was held that where an employee in the shoe factory, who had been repairing machines, was approached from behind by another employee in a dark room and his arms were placed around the claimant's neck and his head was drawn against a lead pencil which injured the claimant's eye, that the injury was compensable.
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Argued April 19, 1917
Decided May 8, 1917
Jeremiah F. Connor for appellants.
Egburt E. Woodbury, Attorney-General ( E.C. Aiken of counsel), for state industrial commission.
George W. Ward for respondent.
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: HISCOCK, Ch. J., CHASE, HOGAN, CARDOZO, POUND, McLAUGHLIN and ANDREWS, JJ.