Hemphill Co. v. Provencher

This is a- petition for review under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300. Following a hearing in the superior court a decree was entered granting the prayer of the petition. From the entry of that decree the respondent duly appealed to this court.

It is undisputed that on or about September 8, 1944 the respondent, a milling machine operative, was disabled by a form of synovitis of the right wrist and forearm. Item 30 in the schedule under §2, art. VIII, chap. 300, makes synovitis an occupational disease which is treated as a personal injury by accident under that…