Legal Opinion
General Motors Corp. v. Vaccarini
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided June 17, 1953No. 8PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Tunnell, J.:
James C. Vaccarini, the appellee (herein called plaintiff), in the course of his employment with General Motors Corporation, the appellant (herein called defendant), on the 17th day of February, 1951, was accidentally injured in the right eye by a flying steel splinter. The injured eye, as a result of the accident, lost thirty-five (35%) per cent of its vision.
A petition for compensation was thereupon filed with the Industrial Accident Board, the prayer of the said petition being grounded upon subsection (c), Sec. 10, of our Delaware Workmen’s Compensation Law of 1917 (Para. 6080,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Stephenson v. Commonwealth & Southern Corp.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1933
- Brown v. State Workmen's Insurance FundSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
- Case v. PillsburyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1945
- General Motors Corp. v. VaccariniSuperior Court of Delaware · 1952
- Case v. PillsburyDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1943
3Cited by4 opinions
- Alloy Surfaces Company v. CicamoreSupreme Court of Delaware · 1966
- Ernest Di Sabatino & Sons, Inc. v. ApostolicoSupreme Court of Delaware · 1970
- Aiken v. General Motors Corp.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1997
- Bruhn v. L.B. Smith, Inc., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Cumberland County1993