Paolantonio v. Evans Plating Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the workmen’s compensation commission affirming a decree in which a trial commissioner denied and dismissed an employee’s original petition for compensation benefits on the ground that he had failed to establish by a fair preponderance of the credible evidence his allegations that his disabling hernia was work-connected and either traumatic or occupational in origin.

Joseph G. Miller, Robert L. Kieman, for petitioner. Joseph A. Kelly, for respondent.

The obligation of the full commission when it reviews a decree of a trial commissioner is to consider and…