Thompson v. Coats & Clark, Inc.

This is an employee’s petition to review a compensation agreement, predicated on the employee’s allegation that his incapacity for work had increased or returned. After a hearing thereon said petition was denied and dismissed by a single commissioner on the ground that said petition had not been brought within ten years of the last payment of compensation, as required by G. L. 1956, 28-35-45.

From the decree accordingly entered, petitioner seasonably appealed to the full commission which, after an independent examination of the record, affirmed the decree of the single commissioner. From that…