Rossiter v. Becker

Parry, J.,

— This is an appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board affirming an award by the referee who found that the claimant met with an accident in the course of his employment, in that while standing in front of a chest in which he was putting some tools the lid fell and pinched the flesh of his leg without breaking the skin. The injury appears to have been regarded by the claimant as a superficial bruise, for the pain that he subsequently felt he did not attribute to the accident. When examined by a surgeon, some six or seven weeks later, he was found to be suffering…