Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York March 15, 1935 (Claim of Haverhals v. Badman)

Claimant and his wife were janitors of an apartment house; they and their two children occupied rooms in the basement as living quarters. She, in anger, threw acid or caustic potash in his face, causing the total loss of vision of one eye, and a serious facial disfigurement.