Desrosiers v. Dionne Bros. Furniture, Inc.

“The right of a claimant to recover workmen’s compensation does not rest at all upon the common law, but upon the statutes alone, which both create and measure the right. . . The act creates new remedies and new liabilities. The manner in which it operates is to be found under the legislation itself.” Bolduc v. Company, 96 N. H. 235, 239. Section 23 of R. L., c. 216, as amended by Laws 1947, c. 266, provides that compensation for partial disability shall be “a weekly compensation equal to sixty-six and two-thirds percent of the difference between his average weekly wage before the injury and…