Panther Creek Mines, Inc. v. Industrial Commission

This case is brought to this court upon the granting of a writ of error to review the judgment of the circuit court of Sangamon county confirming an award made by the Industrial Commission to Theodore Dahlkamp under the Workmen’s Compensation act.

Dahlkamp, a man about sixty-six years of age, received an injury by being struck in his left eye by a piece of coal while he was preparing to drill a hole in the coal mine of plaintiff in error. The injury was received about three o’clock in the afternoon on October 9, 1928. He finished his day’s work and went home, where he bathed his eye and put…