Ewell v. Industrial Commission

120 Utah 671 (1951)

238 P.2d 414

EWELL

v.

INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.

No. 7700.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Decided December 5, 1951.

Dwight L. King, Salt Lake City, for plaintiff.

Clinton D. Vernon, Atty. Gen., F.A. Trottier, G. Hal Taylor, Salt Lake City, for defendants.

HENRIOD, Justice.

Review of an Industrial Commission order denying plaintiff's claim for costs incident to surgical removal of a growth (pterygium) on his left eye, following an on the job accident when a flash from a welder's torch struck him in the eye. The order is reversed, each side to bear its costs.

The following facts were…