Court Opinion

ID: 9669381
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:54:29.856786+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:56.026804
License: Public Domain

Gordon, J.
(concurring). With the remaining four percent of vision in his left eye, Mr. Mednis appears to have had industrially usable vision therein. By reason of the industrial accident on December 11, 1961, his vision in his left eye is entirely gone. I find it unrealistic to say that this accident has cost Mr. Mednis only four percent of vision in his left eye and that he should be reimbursed for only four percent of the amount allowed for the loss of vision of an eye when such four percent represents the totality of sight in such eye.
Those four percentage points are patently far more valuable to him than the four points which might be lost by one with more-normal sight. In other words, to say that the loss of vision in an eye from four percent to zero is no different in value than a loss from 100 percent to 96 percent is not impressive to me.
*446My colleagues are quite mindful of this anomaly but feel bound by sec. 102.52 (16), Stats., and its interpretations. The law supports such position and forecloses dissent. Nevertheless, I am constrained to state that when a judgment leads to such a dubious result as this, a better and more-just solution should be available.
I am authorized to state that Mr. Justice Wilkie joins in this concurring opinion.