Jones v. Hunter Co.

HARDY, Judge.

This is a workman’s compensation claim asserted by plaintiff against his employer and its insurer, in which plaintiff employee seeks recovery of benefits under the compensation statute for the loss of a portion of the index finger on his left hand. After trial there was judgment in favor of defendants rejecting plaintiff’s demands, from which he prosecutes this appeal.

The material facts are entirely without dispute. Plaintiff, a tractor driver employed in plantation operations of the defendant Hunter Company, sustained an accidental injury by reason of which the distal phalanx of…