Britto v. Fram Corporation

This is an original petition for workmen’s compensation resulting from an occupational disease, toxic peripheral neuritis, arising out of and in the course of the petitioner’s employment, connected therewith and referable thereto. The cause is before us on the petitioner’s appeal from a final decree of the full commission reversing the decree of a single commissioner awarding compensation as claimed.

The petitioner entered the employ of the respondent in February 1946, assisting in the kit department or stock room. Sometime in 1947 he was transferred to the paint department where he appears to…