Plouffe v. TAFT-PEIRCE MANUFACTURING COMPANY

This is an employee’s petition under the workmen’s compensation act to adjudge the respondent in contempt for discontinuing weekly payments of $18 at the end of 700 weeks from the date of his injury. The cause is before us on the petitioner’s appeal from a decree of the full commission affirming a decree of the single commissioner denying and dismissing the petition.

The facts in this case are fully set forth in an earlier opinion, Plouffe v. Taft-Peirce Mfg. Co., 80 R. I. 397, wherein the respondent was adjudged in contempt for its failure to continue payments to petitioner of the sum of $18…