Stevenson v. Illinois Watch Case Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1911, in force May 1, 1912 (J. & A. ¶¶ 5449 et seq.); which act was repealed by our present act in force July 1,1913. Appellee, Frank Stevenson, while in the employ of appellant, Illinois Watch Case Company, operating a press, April 7, 1913, caught his fingers in the press resulting in the loss of about one-quarter inch of the bone from the ends of the first and second fingers of the right hand leaving only a small portion of the nail of "each of those two fingers, impairing the sense of feeling in those…