Johnson v. Cox

PRICE, Judge.

This proceeding is certiorari by the employer to review the finding of facts and judgment by the trial court awarding compensation to the employee under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Title 26, Section 253 et seq., Code 1940 as amended.

Roy A. Cox, plaintiff below and appellee here, was struck about the face, cheek, eye and nose with a flying piece of timber on December 31, 1951, while he was engaged as a laborer in petitioner’s sawmill, sustaining a broken cheek bone and severe lacerations about his face, cheek, eye and nose.

The court found that at the time of the accident…