Duke v. Urania Lumber Co.

HARDY, Judge.

This is a compensation suit in which plaintiff claims total, permanent disability as the result of an accident sustained while in the course of his employment. After trial there was judgment in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $30 per week for a period not exceeding four hundred weeks, together with an allowance of $580.00 for medical and hospital attention and service, from which judgment defendants, the employer and its insurer, have appealed.

The alleged injury suffered by plaintiff was what is known as a detached retina of the left eye which caused the permanent and total loss…