H. C. Price Construction Co. v. Southern

This claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Act arises from the appellee’s partial blindness. It is conceded that he has only thirty per cent vision in his right eye and mere light perception in the left. The Commission denied the claim, in the belief that the appellee’s condition did not arise out of and in tlie course of his employment. Ark. Stats. (1947), § 81-1305. The Circuit Court reversed the action of the Commission. For us the only inquiry is whether there was substantial evidence to support the Commission’s rejection of the claim.

The appellee, a man of sixty, had been employed at…