Delallo v. Queen Dyeing Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the superior court denying petitioner compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300.

On March 18, 1943, the petitioner, then about sixty-two years of age, while rolling a heavy barrel, was thrown ■ against a pipe that protruded from the side of respondent’s building. In this industrial accident he sustained a laceration of the face, about an inch long, over the right malar bone. Doctor George J. Dwyer, respondent’s physician, treated him o.n that day and four times thereafter for this injury.

The petitioner testified that on…