Russell v. United Employers Casualty Co.

JOHNSON,- Chief Justice.

This suit was filed by Lige Russell against United Employers Casualty Company as the compensation insurance carrier for Jenkins Drilling Company, Inc., to set aside a final award of the Industrial Accident Board and to recover compensation for 401 weeks at $20 per week for injury sustained to his right eye, the effects of which he claims extended to other portions of his body and rendered him totally and permanently incapacitated to work. Plaintiff alleged that on September 28, 1937, “while working for Jenkins Drilling Company, Inc., he struck the end of a steel chisel…