Pawling & Harnischfeger Co. v. Mildenberger
Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by plaintiff to set aside an award of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin.
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• Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by plaintiff to set aside an award of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin. The findings of the Commission are, in substance, that both applicant and respondent were subject to the provisions of secs. 2394 — 3 to 2394 — 31, Stats., inclusive; that on September 18, 1917, August Mildenberger, while in the employ of plaintiff and in the performance of duties incident to and growing out of his employment, sustained injuries that resulted in permanent partial disability, or total…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
The plaintiff claims that the Commission erred in awarding compensation to the applicant for a permanent partial disability equivalent to total blindness of an eye. The applicant testified to the effect that the injured eye was “all right” before the accident, that he could see all *148right and could read with it before the accident. Two doctors testified that the vision of the applicant’s left eye impractical use was wholly destroyed by the accident, but that in their opinion, in view of all the facts shown regarding the condition of applicant’s eye, he had, prior to the accident, about…
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