Holland v. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 332

Sheran, Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the Industrial Commission awarding the employee compensation for permanent total disability.

For many years prior to 1960, Donald W. Holland suffered an impairment of vision in his right eye as the result of a childhood illness. Surgery to repair this condition had been unsuccessful and the visual acuity readings for the eye have remained generally between 20/200 and 20/400, both corrected and uncorrected.

On June 23, 1960, a piece of wire pierced his left eye. This accident was employment-related. A cataract developed limiting vision of the…