Case Name: SPRINGFIELD INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. FULLER
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1962-06-13
Citations: 106 Ga. App. 140
Docket Number: 39450
Parties: SPRINGFIELD INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. FULLER.
Judges: Hall, J., concurs. Felton, C. J., concurs specially.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 106
Pages: 140–144

Head Matter:
39450.
SPRINGFIELD INSURANCE COMPANY et al. v. FULLER.

Opinion:
Bell, Judge.
Claimant obtained an award of workmen's compensation benefits which was affirmed by the superior court. The evidence showed that on the morning of the day of his injury claimant was driving one-inch concrete nails through a metal sleeve in concrete with a hammer; that the nails had been bending and breaking; that around 10 p.m. at home he suffered pain in his left eye which was worse the next morning; that he was taken to an ophthalmologist who removed a metallic foreign particle embedded in the corner of his left eye; that an infection was found for which, according to the doctor's testimony, a twelve-hour incubation period would not be too long. Claimant had never had trouble prior to the accident and had worked with no other metal than the nails for some time past.
Decided June 13, 1962.
Woodruff, Latimer, Saveli, Lane & Williams, John M. Williams, for plaintiffs in error.
Smith, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hancock, Glover McGhee, contra.
The evidence supported the award. The medical testimony that the metallic foreign body found deeply embedded in the eye produced the infection was positive in nature and coupled with the other evidence was sufficient to justify the board's award. Cf. Lumbermen's Mut. Cas. Co. v. Bridges, 81 Ga. App. 395, 401 (58 SE2d 849).
Judgment affirmed.
Hall, J., concurs. Felton, C. J., concurs specially.