Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Wright

This is a proceeding under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (chapter 123 of the Acts of 1919). The plaintiff below was a steel worker in the employ of defendant railway, and lost his eye while engaged in the railway company’s service. There was a statutory award in favor of the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed in error to this court.

The employee was engaged with two other men in straightening an iron bar on the door of a freight car. He was holding a daddy maul against one side of the bar, another employee held a flatter against the other side, and a third employee was striking the…