Thyer Manufacturing Co. v. Mooney

This is a workmen’s compensation case, growing out of a claim for total and permanent injury alleged to have been caused by contact dermatitis.

Appellee, Willie F. Mooney, was forty-eight years of age at the time of his disability, a farmer, and was employed by appellant, Thyer Manufacturing Company in 1953. He was given a job as a painter. He had never worked as a painter before and had never suffered from dermatitis. Thereafter, in 1955, he developed a rash. The use of paint thinner caused large blisters to form on his hands and arms, and these blisters became infected. The company doctor…