Lamonte v. Frederick E. Menge Co.

LeSUEUR, Judge.

The plaintiff in this action damaged his left wrist in March of 1967 while working for Menge as a painter. The damage, which was serious, was caused by a concrete nail discharged from a “ram-set gun” and driven through the wrist joint.

*712The injury created an unhappy though not uncommon medical problem. Short of fusion, the joint remained unstable and acutely painful. Fusion on the other hand meant stiffness and loss of function. The treating surgeon chose to fuse the wrist in a neutral position and it is, as it must be, frozen in that position.

The defendants paid maximum…