Jacob v. MOSHASSUCK TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

This is an employee’s original petition for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300. The case was heard in the first instance by the director of labor, who awarded the petitioner compensation. The employer appealed therefrom to the superior court where, after a hearing de novo, a justice thereof rendered a decision finding that the petitioner had failed to prove the injury alleged. Thereafter a decree containing such finding was entered. The case is before us on the employee’s appeal from that decree.

It appears- from substantially undisputed testimony…