Hilton v. Oldsmobile Division of General Motors Corp.

Plaintiff underwent a surgical bilateral cataract extraction at the age of ten. Thereafter plaintiff could only differentiate between light and dark and detect some movement. However, with the aid of glasses and contact lenses his vision could be corrected to a 20/25 vision in each eye. Despite this handicap plaintiff worked for defendant from 1947 to 1964.

On November 17, 1964, plaintiff received an injury within the course of his employment resulting in the loss of industrial use of his left leg.

On August 20, 1969, the referee decided that plaintiff had lost his eyes within the meaning of…