Old Dominion Stevedoring Corp. v. O'Hearne

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises the question whether Abner Davis, an employee of the Old Dominion Stevedoring Corporation, is entitled under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq., to full compensation on the basis of permanent partial disability for the loss by accidental injury of an eye affected by pre-existing chronic non-congestive glaucoma.

On November 26, 1952, while the claimant was engaged in loading a ship afloat on the James River at Newport News, Virginia, he was struck in the left eye by a hand iron which slipped from the hand of…