Virta's Case

This is a workmen’s compensation case. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152. The insurer appealed from a decree whereby the employee’s average weekly wages were established at $38 and he was awarded a back payment from June 26, 1930, to April 10, 1931, amounting to $97.51, and compensation after April 10, 1931, at the rate of $8.67 a week, amounting from April 10, 1931, to August 17, 1932, to $615.57, further payment from August 17, 1932, to be subject to the provisions of the act.. The course of proceedings leading to the decree appealed from was as follows: The employee received an injury to his knee on…