Lanford v. Clinton Cotton Mills

Mr. Associate Justice Tayror

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

This is .an appeal from the Court 'of Common Pleas of Laurens County, South Carolina, arising out of the following statement of facts:

On February 3, 1943, while employed by Clinton Cotton Mills, Clinton, S. C., the claimant, Grover P. Lanford, had a fight with one Lindsey Heaton, and Heaton bit off a portion of one of Lanford’s ears.

Lanford filed a claim with the South Carolina Industrial Commission, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, for serious head and facial disfigurement. -A hearing was held before Commissioner…