MacKay v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Crane, Ch. J.

On September 16, 1935, Alexander MacKay was working as an insurance inspector under the Emergency Relief Bureau at 40 Delaware avenue, Buffalo. He was struck over the right eye by a piece of corrugated paper or cardboard which fell from its place over a transom. The force of the blow stunned him temporarily, caused the eyelid to bleed and made the eye so sore that he could not touch it for four days. After the pain ceased he noticed that his sight was dim and blurred. During the winter of 1935 and 1936 the eye troubled him considerably but he continued to work until he was laid…