HENDRICKS v. KENTUCKY & VIRGINIA LEAF TOBACCO CO.


229 S.W.2d 953 (1950)

312 Ky. 849

HENDRICKS v. KENTUCKY & VIRGINIA LEAF TOBACCO CO.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied June 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett & Hennessey, Owensboro, Zeb A. Stewart, Frankfort, for appellant.

Byron, Sandidge & Holbrook, Owensboro, for appellee.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The judgment set aside an award of the Workmen's Compensation Board to the appellant, Joseph Hendricks.

While the employee was coopering a tobacco hogshead, a sliver of metal flew off a nail he was driving and struck him in his left eye. Eventually, in a relatively brief time, vision in both of his eyes was practically lost. The Board concluded that the condition was 50% the result of the injury and 50% of a pre-existing disease in the...

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