Dillingham's Case

Occupational disease was treated as personal injury by accident under the Workmen’s Compensation Act and the question is whether this be error in law.

Some introductory definition and limitation seems desirable. On September 13, 1927, claimant began work in the shoe factory of Rowan & Moore, Inc., in Skowhegan, pulling from the soles of shoes the tacks that held the shoes on lasts. He continued in the employ of the corporation until the twentieth day of the same month, when he quit work that he-might have medical care for his hands, which on that day, or a day or two before (the evidence in…