Chisholm v. Jahncke Dry Docks, Inc.

This is a suit under the Compensation Law. The sole question presented is whether plaintiff, an employee of defendant, was “seriously permanently disfigured about the face” within the meaning of clause 16 of paragraph (d) subsection 1, section 8 of Act 85 of 1926.

Plaintiff’s alleged disfigurement consists of a scar three centimeters in length and one-third of a centimeter in width, running diagonally along the left side of his face in the region of the chin, which according to the medical testimony in the record, will gradually bleach out and narrow, become ies.s apparent, and eventually be…