Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Jackson

The claim of A. O. Jackson, employee, against L. P. Friedstedt, employer, and Bituminous Casualty Corporation, insurance carrier, for compensation for an injury received by the employee while engaged in the performance of his work with the employer and which he claimed resulted in the loss of vision in one of his eyes, was heard before a director of the Industrial Board. The director found from the evidence adduced on the hearing that the claimant’s eyes had been operated on more than twenty years previously, which operation was performed in order to straighten the eyes of the claimant, who…