Tomes v. Gray

This appeal is from a decree awarding the petitioner workmen’s compensation for the loss of his left hand. The facts were stipulated.

It appears on March 10, 1955, the complainant was injured by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment as a laborer for G-ray & Dudley Company. The injury involved consisted of the loss of complainant’s left thumb.

Now it appears that complainant, while working for the same employer in 1947, and in a similar accident lost the other four fingers of his left hand. For this prior loss of four fingers the complainant, by a decree of the Circuit…