Hendricks v. Kentucky & Virginia Leaf Tobacco Co.

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The judgment set aside an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board to the appellant, Joseph Hendricks.

While the employee was coopering a tobacco hogshead, a sliver of metal flew off a nail he was driving and struck him in his left eye. Eventually, in a relatively brief time, vision in both of his eyes was practically lost. The Board concluded that the condition was 50% the result of the injury and 50% of a pre-existing disease in the eyes and awarded compensation accordingly. Though the circuit court delivered no written opinion, its conclusion must have been…