Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. v. Coleman

This is a suit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (chapter 123 of the Acts of 1919) by an employee of the railway company to recover for injuries resulting in the loss of an eye, which he sustained in the course of his employment. There was a judgment for the plaintiff below, from which the employer has appealed in error.

The employee was a boiler maker of fifteen or twenty years’ experience. He was injured November 23, 1921. He was engaged in cutting the head of a rivet off a boiler which he was dismantling when injured. He was holding a hex punch on the rivet head, and his helper was…