Jakutis's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Certification to the Superior Court under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act of two decisions of the Industrial Accident Board..
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Certification to the Superior Court under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act of two decisions of the Industrial Accident Board.. The first decision, rendered on June 1,1920, was that the injury received by Peter Jakutis, while in the employ of the Somerville Auto Wheel and Body Company on March 10, 1919, when portions of his thumb and four fingers of his right hand were traumatically amputated, did not make that hand permanently incapable of use as a hand, so that he was not entitled to specific compensation beyond twenty-five weeks, but that compensation at the rate of $14 a…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
The employee in person has argued fully and with much earnestness that he is aggrieved by the decree of the Superior Court following and establishing the findings of the Industrial Accident Board. The entire record has been examined .with care. The questions claimed to be involved relate to the contentions of the employee (1) that the specific compensation to which he had been entitled because of the traumatic amputation of his thumb and parts of all the other fingers of his right hand has been discontinued wrongfully; (2) that he is entitled to double compensation because his injury was…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Lacione's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- McCarthy's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Amodio's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
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