Marconi v. Bartlett Scrap Iron Co.

This is a petition brought under the workmen's compensation act. Following a hearing in the superior court a justice thereof entered a decree denying and dismissing the petition. From the entry of that decree the petitioner duly appealed to this court.

It appears from the admitted allegations in the petition and from the evidence in the cause that on October 19, 1936 the petitioner, then about fifty-four years of age, while working for the respondent company sustained an injury by reason of particles of steel entering his right eye. He had worked for the respondent for many years prior to the…