Shepherd v. Laurel Branch Coal Co.

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The .appeal is by Silas Shepherd from a judgment confirming the dismissal by the Workmen’s Compensation Board of his claim for compensation for injury suffered) to an-eye; He. also asserted, a'claim against the Subsequent Injury Fund (KRS 342.120 et seq.) on the allegation that he had suffered the loss of his other eye in another employment and had been rendered industrially blind by this later accident.

Shepherd had just been hired by the ap-pellee, the Laurel Branch Coal Company, and was working on his first shift on January 24, 1957, when, as he testified, he was…