Claim of Smith v. Tonawanda Paper Co.

On January 27, 1930, claimant sustained a fractured patella as the result of an accident while in his regular employment as a switchman getting on a box car. The Board has found that his average weekly wage prior to the accident was twenty-six dollars and forty cents, and that due to said injuries his wage-earning capacity was reduced to the sum of five dollars per week.

The medical testimony indicates that there is little or no restriction in the movement of his knee; that manipulation is painful and that pain and discomfort are occasioned after continued standing; that on September 10, 1930,…