Commonwealth Life Insurance v. Goodknight's Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

The defendant below prosecutes this appeal from a judgment for $1,000.00 recovered against it by the appellee, who was plaintiff below. In the latter part of the year 1919, Frank Phillip Goodknight noticed that there was something wrong with his left eye. He paid no particular attention to it until about April 1, 1920, when he consulted Dr. Adolph C. Pfingst of Louisville, Kentucky, who makes a specialty of opthalmology. Dr. Pfingst found that Goodknight was suffering from a sarcoma of the left eye, which he ! _,stifies is a cancerous growth…