Boynton's Case

The insurer’s appeal raises the issues whether an employee who was paid specific compensation for a foot injury under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 36 (r), as appearing in St. 1949, c. 519, may also be awarded specific compensation for disfigurement and for loss of bodily functions under subsections (h) and (i), respectively, of the same section.

The employee, while carrying skins in an elevator from one floor to another in a building where he was employed, caught his right foot between the elevator and a floor landing. This was on June 22, 1950, and led to the amputation of four toes, the little…