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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Claim of Giovanni Palermo, Respondent, against Paolo Silvestro and Another, Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
   Award modified by substituting therein the figures $15. in place of $19.75, and $980 in place of $1,290.33, on the ground that the rate of compensation must be limited to the amount fixed by the statute in force in 1917 when the accident occurred (Matter of Neglia v. Zimmerman, 237 N. Y. 131), and as so modified award affirmed, without costs. Cochrane, P. J., Van Kirk, Hinman, Davis and Whitmyer, JJ., concur. 
      
       See Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 15, subd. 5, as amd. by Laws of 1917, chap. 705.— [Rep.