Costello v. Seamless Rubber Co.

The loss of two phalanges and of the greater part of the third phalanx of the second finger is by the statute required to be construed as the loss of the Whole finger, and it is admitted that the plaintiff is entitled, in addition to full compensation for total incapacity, to one half of his average weekly earnings for thirty weeks, as for the total loss of the second finger. The matter in dispute is whether he is also entitled to the further award of $3 a week from January, 1921, to May, 1922, as additional partial compensation for incapacity due to the above described condition of the stump…