McDonald v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp.

This is an action of tort to recover damages for the loss by the plaintiff of the sight of his right eye, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant’s agent in treating the eye. The defendant, at the close of the plaintiff’s case, moved for a directed verdict and a verdict was directed. The case is here on the plaintiff’s exceptions to the direction of a verdict for the defendant and to the admission and exclusion of evidence.

The plaintiff testified that on December 24, 1927, while working for his employer, he “received a foreign body in his right eye,” that the eye became…