Martin's Furniture Co. v. Perry

This is a petition brought by an employer to review a preliminary agreement under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300. It is before this court on the petitioner’s appeal from a decree entered in the superior court declining to hear the merits of an appeal from the decision of the director of labor on such petition and granting the respondent’s motion to adjudge the employer in contempt for failing to make weekly compensation payments pending the appeal.

It appears that respondent, hereinafter termed the employee, was injured on November 29, 1949 in the course of his…