SHEPHERD v. LAUREL BRANCH COAL CO.


335 S.W.2d 943 (1960)

Silas SHEPHERD, Appellant, v. LAUREL BRANCH COAL CO., Subsequent Injury Fund, and Workmen's Compensation, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied June 24, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don A. Ward, Hazard, for appellant.

M. B. Barrett, Hazard, L. C. Turner, Frankfort, for appellees.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is by Silas Shepherd from a judgment confirming the dismissal by the Workmen's Compensation Board of his claim for compensation for injury suffered to an eye. He also asserted a claim against the Subsequent Injury Fund (KRS 342.120 et seq.) on the allegation that he had suffered the loss of his other eye in another employment and had been rendered industrially blind by this later accident.

Shepherd had just been hired by the...

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