Builders Iron Works, Inc. v. Murphy

This is an employer’s petition to review a decree awarding the employee benefits for partial incapacity. The trial commissioner, finding that the employee’s incapacity for work had ended and his earning capacity regained, ordered suspension of the payment of compensation benefits. On review, with one commissioner dissenting, the full commission affirmed, and the case is now here on the employee’s appeal.

In 1965 the employer was engaged in the reconstruction of the Crawford Street bridge in Providence and the employee was engaged as a timekeeper at an average weekly salary of $100. He…