Snopkoski v. Home Riverside Coal Mines Co.

The opinion of this court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

This is an appeal from a lump-sum judgment rendered under the workmen’s compensation law for the accidental, permanent, partial loss of the sight of an eye. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for $2,376.38, and the defendant appeals.

By an accident, while the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendants, his right eye was injured so that he almost completely lost the sight thereof. Special questions were answered by the jury as follows:

“Q. 1. Was the plaintiff’s eye injured on or about the 9th day of January, 1924, while working in…