Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Britt

While performing a surgical operation on a colored employee of appellant at the Baptist State Hospital on October 7, 1927, and while removing an enlarged and infected gland from the inguinal region or groin of said employee, the late Dr. J. P. Runyan punctured said gland or it was caused to burst and the fluid or exudate therefrom was thrown upon him and appellee, some of which struck her in the left eye. Appellee’s eye became infected therefrom causing the loss of said eye, and said infection caused her to undergo other serious and painful operations, as well as the removal of said eye, from…