Thompson v. Leach McClain

On November 17, 1938, and for some time prior thereto, the plaintiff was employed by the partnership of Leach McClain as a welder at a wage of at least 75 cents per hour for a six-day week, a minimum weekly wage of $36, and on the aforesaid date, while in the course and scope of his employment, in the act of building up some cut-out valves by electric welding, some scale from the hot metal "popped or chipped off" and struck plaintiff in the cornea of the right eye, resulting in injury to the eye to the extent that it is a total loss from an industrial and economic standpoint. Plaintiff until…