Larrabee v. Citizens Telephone Co.

The claimant was employed by defendant in August, 1927, in clearing a right of way for a telephone line. In cutting the limbs from a tree he had felled a sapling which was bent over by the tree in its fall, was released, flew back, and hit him in the left eye. He suffered severe pain at the time and worked no more that day. Later in the day he told one Bugbee, who was in the employ of defendant and had charge of said work, about the injury, gave him a detailed account of how it happened, and Bugbee inspected the eye. Bugbee acknowledged that claimant had received quite a blow, and told him…