Huggins v. B. C. Jarrell & Co.

The petitioner sued under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Pub. Acts 1919, chapter 123, as amended), alleging disability from the loss of use of his eyesight as a result of accident arising out of the employment. He testified that on January 11, 1933, the end of a wire, or a fragment from a wire, struck him in the right eye and injured it, resulting in inflammation that impaired the vision of both eyes. In his statement about the injury, the petitioner is corroborated by other employees at the plant, and as to the nature and duration of the injury by the testimony of Mrs. Huggins and by the…