CF BRAUN AND COMPANY v. Mason

Wolcott, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court affirming the dismissal by the Industrial Accident Board of a petition of C. F. Braun and Company for the modification of an agreement between the parties for the payment to Mason of compensation for temporary total disability.

Braun asks us to hold that in compensation cases involving technical medical problems, in this case injury to the brain, it is necessary for the Industrial Accident Board to base an award solely upon competent medical testimony, and to reject lay testimony which contradicts the expert medical testimony.…