Finoia v. Winchester Repeating Arms Co.

The plaintiff, a young married woman twenty-two years of age, sustained an injury while in the employ of the defendant which resulted in a scar six inches long running from á point three and one-half inches above the wrist to a point one and one-half inches below the elbow. The compensation commissioner found that the scar constituted a serious and permanent disfigurement and held that it was compensable as a disfigurement of a hand within the meaning of “hands” as used in General Statutes, Cum. Sup. 1939, § 1328e. The defendant appealed from, the award to the Superior Court which reserved…