Western Contracting Corp. v. Industrial Commission

WADE, Justice:

Plaintiff, Western Contracting Corporation, seeks a reduction in the Industrial Commission’s award to Leo A. Davis of 100 weeks workmen’s compensation for total blindness of one eye. The parties stipulated that on May 9, 1961, in the course of his employment, Davis’ right eye was injured by a piece of steel from a hammer, causing essentially total blindness to such eye, but that with the use of an optical lens, a substantial function of the injured eye is restored. Plaintiffs contend that this restoration of the function of the injured eye by the use of an optical lens shows he…