Willand's Case

The employee strainéd his side while loading a piano onto a truck, and was paid compensation. Later there was a hearing under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 12, as amended, on the issue of present incapacity before a single member of the Industrial Accident Board, who found, “Upon consideration of all the evidence, with particular reference to the report of Dr. Cadis Phipps, who impartially examined the employee on December 5, 1946, and expressed the opinion that there was causal relation between employee’s condition and the piano lifting, I find . . . that the employee continues to be totally…