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

In the Matter of the Claim of Lunzio Tolloid, Respondent, against A. W. Hopeman & Sons Company et al., Appellants. State Industrial Board, Respondent.
    (Argued January 21, 1925;
    decided February 25, 1925.)
    
      Workmen’s compensation —■ master and servant — payment of award under Workmen’s Compensation Law —■ power of State Industrial Board to reopen case and make increased award.
    
    
      Tolloid v. Hopeman & Sons Co., 209 App. Div. 719, affirmed.
    Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered July 12, 1924, unanimously affirming an award of the State Industrial Board, made under the 'Workmen’s Compensation Law. Claimant received and was paid an award for fifty per cent loss of the use of his right foot from an accidental injury received in the course of his employment. Thereafter the State Industrial Board reopened the case and increased the award so as to make compensation for seventy per cent loss of use of the foot. Appellants contended this was error.
    
      William H. Foster for appellants.
    
      Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General (E. C. Aiken of counsel), for respondent.
   Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: McLaughlin, J.