Superior Coal Co. v. Industrial Commission

On May 1, 1924, James Kellett, who had been blind in his right eye for eight years, sustained an accidental injury to his left eye in the course of and arising out of his employment by the Superior Coal Company, for which, on his application to the Industrial Commission, an arbitrator made an award in his favor against his employer of $15 a week for 12 weeks of total incapacity to work and $15 a week for 75 weeks, as provided in paragraph (e) of section 8 of the Workmen’s Compensation act, for the reason that the injury caused permanent and complete loss of seventy-five per cent of the use of…