Bagg v. Pickering Lumber Co.

On or about August 3rd, 1922, the plaintiff, W. C. Bagg, was in the employ of W. R. Pickering Lumber Company, the defendant, as a blacksmith’s helper, and while engaged in defendant’s work, was struck in the left eye by a fleak of hot steel. He immediately went to another employee, who looked at the wound and then sent him to the physician in the employ of defendant for treatment. This physician treated plaintiff’s eye for a week or ten days and as it continued to hurt and give pain, at plaintiff’s request, he was taken to another physician, an eye specialist. This physician examined the eye…