Novak v. State Workmen's Insurance Fund

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

This is an appeal from the affirmance of an award by the workmen’s compensation board for industrial loss of the use of an eye. The claimant, a coal loader employed by Hustead Semans Coal & Coke Company, was injured in the course of his employment by a foreign body striking his left eye. Compensation was paid to him for total disability until May 21, 1929, when he executed a final receipt and returned to his former employment. Subsequently he filed a petition for review, claiming the loss of vision of his left eye “for all practical, industrial purposes” as a result of…