Langanke v. Bradford Dyeing Association

This original petition was brought by an employee to recover workmen’s compensation under general laws 1938, chapter 300. It alleges in substance and effect that the petitioner, while putting chemicals into jigs in the course of his employment, suffered an injury when the “chemicals splashed over face & left eye” causing total disability for one month. It was heard in the superior court de novo on appeal from the decision of the director of labor, and thereupon the trial justice entered a decree including among others the following findings: “1. That the Petitioner received an injury to his…