Mosgaard v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

Lees, C.

Certiorari to review an award of compensation made by the Industrial Commission.

The sole question to be determined may be thus stated: When, in the course of his employment, an accidental injury to a workmen’s eye necessitates its removal, does the workman, totally blind in that eye since childhood, become entitled to compensation as provided by the following portion of section 14, chapter 82, p. 96, L. 1921, “For the loss of an eye, sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the daily wage at the time of injury during one hundred (100) weeks”?

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