Walker v. State Compansation Commissioner

Woods, President:

This is an appeal by an injured employee from the award of the Commission, commonly called the Compensation Appeal Board, created by section 57, Chapter 68, Acts 1925, to review the awards of the Compensation Commissioner.

The employee, now totally blind, attributes the loss of his sight to a piece of coal which struck him in the right eye while he was engaged in scrapping bottom in a coal mine. After a delay of almost a year, and after claimant had practically lost his vision, a report was made by his employer, under protest, to the Compensation Commissioner, and after some…