Milner v. 250 Greenwood Ave. Corp.

This is an original petition under the provisions of article VIII, §2, item 24, of the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, to obtain compensation for the occupational disease of poisoning by sulphuric acid. After a hearing in the superior court the trial justice entered a decree ordering the payment of compensation together with medical expenses. The case is before us on respondent’s appeal from that decree.

It appears in evidence that the petitioner, sixty-one years of age, had worked steadily from 1916 to 1948 as a blacksmith and welder for the respondent, a…