Cook v. Colby College & Liberty Mutual Insurance

This workmen’s compensation case is before us on appeal from a pro forma decree in the Superior Court affirming the decision of the Industrial Accident Commission.

The issue is whether the Commission correctly held that the removal of an eye with 3 3/10% of normal vision resulting from a compensable accident was the “loss of an eye” within the schedule of injuries of Section 13 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act entitling the claimant to compensation for presumed total incapacity for 100 weeks.

The facts are not in dispute. The parties stipulated and agreed:

“---that on April 20, 1957, just prior…