Anderson v. Lynch
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the defendant from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the fifth district, acting for and in place of the Commissioner of the first district, taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County and, by agreement of the parties, transferred to and heard by said court in Middlesex County {Greene J.), which directed the dismissal of the appeal, and from the judgment thereafter rendered in conformity with this direction, by said court in Hartford County…
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Appeal by the defendant from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the fifth district, acting for and in place of the Commissioner of the first district, taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County and, by agreement of the parties, transferred to and heard by said court in Middlesex County {Greene J.), which directed the dismissal of the appeal, and from the judgment thereafter rendered in conformity with this direction, by said court in Hartford County {Haines, J.), the defendant appealed. The commissioner found that the plaintiff whose back was injured, suffered an…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The reasons of appeal assume that the plaintiff’s incapacity is partial, and the Superior Court in its memorandum states that counsel so agreed. There is, however, no such finding by the commissioner, and the award of weekly compensation equal to one half of the plaintiff’s average weekly earnings at the time of his injury, could not lawfully have been made except in the case of total incapacity. Nevertheless, the injury in question is not one of those enumerated in § 6352, and so far as the commissioner’s jurisdiction to render an award of weekly compensation for a fixed period of time is…
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