Spenle v. Industrial Commission

The trial court did not find a lack of credible evidence to sustain the findings as made by the commission on which it based its conclusion that the diseased condition of the eye was not due to injury incurred in the employment. The commission was convinced that the past medical history of the plaintiff disclosed repeated infections of the eye; that although trauma might cause an ulcer, the existing condition also might have been caused by systemic infection. The plaintiff’s account of the injury claimed by him met pointed contradiction in a number of particulars; in the lack of immediate…