Sherry v. Crescent Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the workmen’s compensation commission awarding an injured employee specific compensation for “the reduction to one-tenth (1/10) or less of normal vision with glasses” pursuant to the provisions of G. L. 1956, §28-33-19 (d). The only question raised is whether the commission erred in fixing the amount of the award pursuant to the terms of the statute in effect in March 1961, the time the employee injured his eye. The employee -contends that the injury for which specific compensation is provided under said §28-33-19 (d), reduction in vision, did not occur…