LaPorte v. Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Co.

Plaintiff and appellee was awarded compensation from the Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Company and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, defendants and appellants, for the loss of vision of the left eye. Plaintiff had worked for many years for the Kalamazoo Stov'e & Furnace Company. In 1934, he had eye trouble resulting from sand getting into his left eye. He had a recurrence of eye trouble in 1939. He claimed that on April 2, 1942, while pushing a bull ladle of molten iron on an overhead track in the foundry, some of the metal spilled over the side of the ladle, fell to the floor and either a piece…