Pappas's Case

Carroll, J;

In this proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act, the question to be decided is whether the case is an unusual one under G. L. c. 152, § 30, which gives the Industrial Accident Board authority in unusual cases to require the insurer to furnish adequate medical and hospital services for a longer period than two weeks.

The employee was injured by a box of chips, weighing five or six hundred pounds, falling on his right foot on July 19, 1926. His foot continued to pain him for some time, and his physician attended him until the twenty-ninth of September. An X-ray of his foot was…