GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. VACCARINI


97 A.2d 550 (1953)

GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. VACCARINI.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

June 17, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney M. Layton (of Richards, Layton & Finger), of Wilmington, for appellant.

George Tyler Coulson (of Morris, Steel, Nichols & Arsht), of Wilmington, for appellee.

WOLCOTT and TUNNELL, Justices, and SEITZ, Chancellor, sitting.


TUNNELL, Justice.

James C. Vaccarini, the appellee (herein called plaintiff), in the course of his employment with General Motors Corporation, the appellant (herein called defendant), on the 17th day of February, 1951, was accidentally injured in the right eye by a flying steel splinter. The injured eye, as a result of the accident, lost thirty five (35%) per cent of its vision.

A petition for compensation was thereupon filed with the Industrial Accident Board...

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