Hicks v. White Crandin Lumber Co.

While performing services as an employee of defendant company, plaintiff, on August 11, 1926, received a severe cut on his left knee. He alleges that a serious permanent impairment to his leg resulted from the injury disabling him from performing work of any reasonable character, for which he sues defendant company in compensation -under the Employers’ Liability Act. He recovered judgment for 65 per centum of his daily wage of $4.50 for a period of 175 weeks, for the total permanent loss of the use of his leg. The defendant company appeals.

That plaintiff was injured on his left knee by an axe…