Cole v. New England Transportation Co.

These original petitions for workmen’s compensation were brought by four employees against their employer. Since the facts in all the cases are the same they were heard together. The trial commissioner found that the injuries sustained arose out of and in the course of the petitioners’ employment, and he entered a decree in each case awarding compensation. From such decrees the respondent appealed to the full commission which entered decrees adopting the findings of fact made by the trial commissioner but reversing his decrees on the ground that the injuries were not compensable. Each case is…