Shortall v. Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co.

This is a petition by an employee for partial compensation and medical expenses under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300. The case is before us on the employer’s appeal from a decree of the superior court granting the petition.

Respondent’s contentions require that we first set out with some particularity the rather confusing circumstances in the record under consideration. The evidence shows that on January 26, 1940 the petitioner, while lifting a heavy piece of cast iron in the course of his work, suffered a “strained back” by accident. Compensation on the basis…