Duarte v. Union Wadding Co.

This is an employee’s original petition for benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The case is before this court on the employee’s appeal from the decree of the full commission which affirmed the decree of the trial commissioner.

At the hearing before the trial commissioner petitioner presented testimony to establish that he sustained a compensable injury while in respondent’s employ which resulted in his partial incapacity for work from June 15, 1970 to the time of the hearing. The respondent, on the other hand, attempted to prove that petitioner sustained no compensable injury.

In the…