Schrum v. Catawba Upholstering Co.

Tbe claimant, at tbe time be suffered an injury by accident arising out of and in tbe course of employment which resulted in total destruction of vision of bis right eye, was suffering from astigmatism of said eye, which caused a forty per cent uncorrected loss of vision. By tbe use of proper glasses bis vision was from ninety to one hundred per cent normal.

Tbe bearing Commissioner found tbat “tbe accident destroyed tbe source and substance of vision, tbat which tbe claimant possessed and which enabled him to establish a vision close to normal which cannot be established in any part by tbe…