Combination Rubber Manufacturing Co. v. Obser

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PARKER, J.

The question is whether the trial court properly awarded compensation as for total and permanent disability for the loss of petitioner’s remaining eye, he having already lost one eye before entering prosecutor’s employ. The relevant provisions of section 11 of the act, as amended in 1913 (Pamph. L., p. 302), are as follows:

“For tlie loss of an eye, 50 per cent, of daily wages during 100 weeks."’(b) “For disability total in character and permanent in quality, 50 per cent, of the wages, received at the time of in*44¡jury. * * ' * This…