Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Davis

BOND, Chief Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. De George’s Restaurant was the employer, Ardell Davis the employe, and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company the insurer. Davis sought compensation for 75 per cent partial loss of vision in his left eye and 25 per cent partial loss of vision in his right eye, claimed to have resulted “when on or about the first day of January 1944, some lye-water with which he was washing pots and pans (restaurant kitchen utensils) splashed into his left eye.” During the trial Davis filed new pleadings claiming 100 per cent total and permanent loss of his…