Silvia v. Newport Shipyard, Inc.

This is an employee's appeal from a decree entered in the superior court on January 25, 1947, which denied and dismissed an original petition for compensation for partial or total disability.

An examination of the record discloses the following facts. The petitioner, a carpenter, sustained an injury on October 24, 1942 arising out of and in the course of his employment with the respondent. While planing a board, which tipped over, his right hand came in contact with a knife, or some other planing instrument, resulting in the necessary amputation of the first phalanx of the thumb and two…