Southern Co-Operative Foundry Co. v. Drummond

B. E. Drummond applied to the State Board of Workmen’s Compensation for a hearing to determine the liability of the Southern Co-operative Foundry Company for compensation for an injury received when the tip of his right thumb was amputated by a saw in the plant of the defendant. Upon the hearing it was admitted by all the parties that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment, that the claimant lost no time from his employment as a result of the injury, and that the injury involved the amputation- of one-fourth inch of the bone of the .distal phalange of the right thumb.…