Quinn v. American International Ship Building Corp.

Citations

• 77 Pa. Super. 304
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 257

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s compensation — Loss of eye — Operation on eye from which vision had gone — Bight to compensation.</p> <p>On a claim for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, no award will be made for the loss of an eye removed by an operation rendered necessary by an accident, where the vision in the eye had been extinguished for nearly twenty years prior to the time of the second injury.</p> <p>If the use of the organ had already been lost, the claimant cannot recover compensation a second time, because of a subsequent physical loss of the organ. The compensation is, in effect, for the loss of the use of the member, and not for what might be called the nominal loss of a member, which had already ceased to function.</p>