Special Indemnity Fund of the State v. Stoveall

BERRY, Justice.

In the proceeding under review, claimant recovered an award against the Special Indemnity Fund, hereinafter called the Fund, for permanent total disability attributable to the cumulative effect of his preexisting sightlessness in the right eye and industrial blindness in the left eye, considered in combination with the disability from his last accidental injury to the back on August 30, 1957.

According to the record, claimant’s right eye became industrially blind as a result of a mining accident which occurred in 1938. While engaged for the last employer, claimant sustained,…