Catlett v. Chattanooga Handle Co.

In childhood the petitioner lost the vision of his.left eye from disease. His right eye was destroyed by an injury at defendant’s plant by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. The industrial injury plus the loss of the left eye during the employee’s childhood resulted in blindness. The trial judge awarded compensation for the loss of the eye destroyed by'the industrial injury. It is insisted that under the compensation law, chapter 123, Acts of 1919, the petition er should have been awarded compensation for permanent total disability under section 28 (d) and 28 (e) of…