Kilpinen's Case

This proceeding is under the workmen’s act, for compensation for further disability. 1929 Laws, Chap. 300, now R. S. (1930), Chap. 55, Sec. 1 et seq. The Industrial Accident Commission, a single member sitting, refused to make a new award, and dismissed the petition. A justice of the Superior Court, as was his ministerial duty, rendered a decree to enforce the rights of the parties upon the facts as found by the commissioner. The case comes forward on appeal.

The employee, a quarryman, was accidentally injured on October 31, 1929, a piece of granite flying from a blast rupturing his left…