Gentry v. Bano, Inc.

McQUADE, Justice.

The specific indemnity provisions within the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Idaho direct that partial permanent disability compensation be awarded as follows:

“For loss of one:

“Eye by enucleation ...140 [weeks] Total blindness of one eye.120 [weeks] * * * ” I.C. § 72-313.

The only question presented by this appeal is whether the Industrial Accident Board may award one hundred and forty weeks specific indemnity for the enucleation or surgical removal of the bulb or ball of an eye (bulbus oculi) which was permanently sightless at the time of the industrial accident which made…