Georgia Casualty & Surety Co. v. Wesby

Whitman, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case, the claimant received an eye injury. The question for decision is whether in determining the extent of loss of use of an eye, i.e., the eye’s vision, the law requires such determination to be made on the basis of the naked eye’s ability to see before and after the injury, or whether such determination is to be made on the basis of the injured eye’s ability to see after the injury after putting corrective lenses or glasses on.

At the hearing before the deputy director, there was testimony by an opthalmologist that the claimant’s visual ability…