Brown v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

REGAN, Júdge.

Plaintiff, Edward Brown, asserting that he was employed as a carpenter, instituted this suit against the defendant, Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, the compensation insurer of his employer, Melvin W. Mathes, endeavoring to recover workmen’s compensation at the rate of $35 per week for 400 weeks for total and permanent disability resulting from injuries to his right foot incurred when he fell from a ladder while working as a carpenter for Mathes and the imposition of penalties for arbitrary refusal to pay compensation to him.

Defendant answered and admitted the occurrence of…