Gagnon's Case

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. The employee, Miss Gagnon, sustained a compensable injury on May 26, 1946, by slipping on a wet floor. She suffered a fracture of the twelfth dorsal vertebra; and a bone *132graft operation to immobilize the joint was performed. She was paid compensation for total incapacity at the rate of $21.00 per week to April 27, 1948, when the insurance carrier, having previously filed a petition for review, stopped further payments. After a hearing the commission filed its decision to the effect that “as far as her back is concerned” she was not totally incapacitated…