Employers' Mutual Insurance v. Industrial Commission
Supreme Court of Colorado
Proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act. Judgment for claimant. Error to the District Court of the City and County of Denver, Hon. Charles C. Butler, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Denison
The Industrial Commission awarded defendant in error, Benke, full compensation ($1,040.) under § 73 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1919, for total blindness of the right eye. It is agreed that he lost but ninety per cent of the eye’s sight and retained ten per cent. The commission made a finding of “almost complete loss of vision” in the injured eye, and “That the amount of vision now remaining is of no value from a working standpoint.” Under such finding the award was right. Ind. Com. v. Johnson, 64 Colo. 461, 172 Pac. 422.
The question is one of per cent of disability not of blindness.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Industrial Commission v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1918
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