Phillips' Case
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal. Claimant was totally incapacitated by an injury on April 5th, 1922, and on April 15th, 1922, an agreement was entered into between the employer and claimant, duly approved, that under Section 14 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, compensation should be paid and was paid according to the terms of the agreement.
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On appeal. Claimant was totally incapacitated by an injury on April 5th, 1922, and on April 15th, 1922, an agreement was entered into between the employer and claimant, duly approved, that under Section 14 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, compensation should be paid and was paid according to the terms of the agreement. On August 14th, 1922, it became necessary to amputate the thumb, third finger and fourth finger of the right hand, and from this date it was agreed that compensation should be allowed and paid under Section 16 of the act. On October 14th, 1922, a petition for review was filed…
1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.
This case comes up on appeal from the sitting Justice upon the following abbreviated agreed statement of facts dated November 2d, 1922. On April 5th, 1922, while in the employ of the Auburn Electrical Company, William J. Phillips, the petitioner, received a personal injury by accident largely to his right hand so that he was totally incapacitated for work from April 5th, 1922 to date.
An agreement as to payment of compensation under Section 14 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, was entered into between the employer and employee on April 28th, 1922, which was approved by the Commissioner of…
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