Long v. City of Hannibal

DOWD, Chief Judge.

Appellant City of Hannibal (hereinafter the City) appeals a circuit court judgment reversing a final award of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission granting the City a credit for payment of $11,200.00 in permanent partial disability to Ronald L. Long (hereinafter employee).

In June of 1976 in the course of his employment as a police officer, employee contracted ocular histoplasmosis, a disease which causes blindness. Both of employee’s eyes were infected, but his right eye deteriorated more rapidly. In February of 1978, the employee and the City executed a…