1963_session laws_1150_2
CHAPTER 1149 AN ACT TO REIMBURSE JERRY WELBORNE FINNEY FOR INJURIES RECEIVED IN A CHEMICAL EXPLOSION IN JONESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, YADKIN COUNTY. WHEREAS, on March 1, 1962, an explosion occurred in the chemical laboratory in the Jonesville High School, and as a result thereof Jerry Welborne Finney, age 18, a student in the said school was seriously injured and permanently disfigured, suffering loss of a part of his left hand, and a badly mangled left arm; and WHEREAS, the said student has been informed that he has no legal remedy against the Board of Education, or the Board of County Commis- sions of Yadkin County, or against any other person or municipal body; and WHEREAS, it appears there is no legal remedy whereby the said stu- dent may be reimbursed for his extensive hospital and medical expenses except by an Act of the General Assembly; and WHEREAS, a balance in excess of three thousand dollars ($38,000.00) is owed for past medical and hospital treatment, and anticipated further medical expenses exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000.00): Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The North Carolina Industrial Commission is authorized and directed to investigate the claim of Jerry Welborne Finney, of Yadkin County, arising out of injuries he received as a result of an explosion in the chemical laboratory of the Jonesville High School building, and upon production of satisfactory proof that the said injuries occurred in the manner herein set forth there shall be paid to the said Jerry Welborne Finney, or to the persons standing in loco parentis, such amount, not to exceed six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500.00), as the said Commission may find that Jerry Welborne Finney has been damaged as a result of his injuries as herein set forth, the said payment to be made from Contingency and Emergency Funds. 1480