State Treasurer v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal under our Rule 302(a)(2) (58 Ill. 2d R. 302(a)(2)) from a Cook County circuit court confirmance of an Industrial Commission award. The Commission found that the claimant had 100% loss of sight in. her left eye prior to February 1974, and subsequently suffered a 100% loss of sight in her right eye in a February 4, 1974, accident at the Ampex Corporation. Under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.), Mrs. Young wiU receive a lifetime pension, payable in part out of the Second Injury Fund. The State Treasurer of the State of Illinois,…