Vesel v. Jardine Mining Co.

This is an action for damages for an injury to plaintiff’s eye. The defendant, a mining company, was operating under Plan 3 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Rev. Codes 1935, sec. 2990 et seq. The plaintiff at the time of the accident was an underground miner operating a power driven drill in defendant’s mine at Jardine and was 58 years of age at the time of the trial and without dependents. June 2, 1936, a small particle, subsequently found to be a piece of steel, flew off the drill and embedded itself in the plaintiff’s right eye. Following the accident, plaintiff turned his equipment over…