Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Ralph DeCaprio against General Electric Company, Respondent. State Industrial Board, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1927-03-01
Citations: 244 N.Y. 500
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Ralph DeCaprio against General Electric Company, Respondent. State Industrial Board, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 244
Pages: 500–501

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Ralph DeCaprio against General Electric Company, Respondent. State Industrial Board, Appellant.
(Argued February 21, 1927;
decided March 1, 1927.)
Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General (E. C. Aiken of counsel), for appellant.
F. J. Young and R. D. Moot for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The question is whether any standard method of determining loss of visual efficiency has been so established as to make all others erroneous as matter of law or whether a difference of opinion may exist among experts as to the proper interpretation of recognized tests.
We are unable to say that Dr. Acheson's interpretation of the Snellen test is erroneous as matter of law although he finds 80 percentage of loss of vision when the American Medical Association would read his formula as indicating only 51.1 percentage of loss of vision.
Until the Legislature or the State Industrial Board establishes a proper standard method of determining the question it must remain one of fact. The weight of authority doubtless inclines to the rules adopted by the American Medical Association.
The order appealed from should be reversed and the award of the State Industrial Board affirmed, with costs in this court and in the Appellate Division, and the question certified answered in the affirmative.
Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Lehman and O'Brien, JJ., concur; Andrews and Kellogg, JJ., not sitting.
Ordered accordingly.