McKenzie v. Gulf Hills Hotel, Inc.

Appellant was employed by appellee as a general maintenance man. While engaged in and about the discharge of his duties he sustained an injury to his eye as a result of which it became infected and removal of the entire eyeball by surgery became necessary. About thirty years previously a splinter had punctured the lens of this same eye and had destroyed the vision therein but with no apparent disfiguration of the eye.

Our Workmen’s Compensation Law, Code of 1942, Section 6998-09 provides for payment of benefits for a period of 100 weeks for the loss of an eye. Appellant filed claim for such…