Holeproof Hosiery Co. v. Wilkins

This is a workman’s compensation case in which the petitioner, Edith Willdns, suffered an injury to her wrist. The trial judge found the facts as follows:

“Petitioner files her claim for total and permanent disability arising as a consequence of an occupational disease known as tenosynovitis which is compensable under the law.

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“All the proof, both lay and medical, for both Petitioner and the Defendant, show that the disability is and was confined to the hand and that no other part or function of the body was thereby affected. The disease is one confined to the wrist, is not usually…