Durante v. Atlantic Tubing & Rubber Co.

This employee’s petition to review a preliminary agreement was heard before a trial commissioner upon an agreed statement of facts. The case is before us on the employee’s appeal from a decree of the full commission affirming a decree of the trial commissioner.

The agreed statement of facts contains the following factual background which precipitated the issue raised by this appeal. On April 8, 1965, the employee sustained a compensable injury while in respondent’s employ. On April 30, 1965, the parties entered into a preliminary agreement providing for the payment of compensation to the…