WESTERN CONTRACTING CORP. v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N

No. 9970.

15 Utah 2d 208 (1964)

390 P.2d 125

WESTERN CONTRACTING CORPORATION (EMPLOYER) AND EMPLOYERS MUTUAL LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY OF WISCONSIN (CARRIER), PLAINTIFFS, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF UTAH AND LEO A. DAVIS, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of Utah.

March 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde, Mecham & Pratt, Frank J. Allen, Salt Lake City, for plaintiffs.

A. Pratt Kesler, Atty. Gen., Frederick S. Prince, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for defendants.


WADE, Justice:

Plaintiff, Western Contracting Corporation, seeks a reduction in the Industrial Commission's award to Leo A. Davis of 100 weeks workmen's compensation for total blindness of one eye. The parties stipulated that on May 9, 1961, in the course of his employment, Davis' right eye was injured by a piece of steel from a hammer, causing essentially total blindness to such eye, but that with the use of an optical lens, a substantial function of the injured...

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