Plouffe v. Taft-Peirce Manufacturing Co.

This is an employee’s petition under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, article III, §6, to have his employer adjudged in contempt for willful failure or neglect to obey the provisions of a decree of the superior court awarding him maximum compensation of $18 per week for partial incapacity in accordance with art. II, §11, of said act as amended. From a decree of the superior court denying the petition, the employee has appealed to this court.

The facts are these. On February 17, 1942 the employee received an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of…