Morin's Case

Honan,

J. This is an appeal from a decree awarding compensation to an employee who sustained an injury on December 4, 1943, and a second injury on January 5, 1945, while working for the same employer. The sole contention of the employer, who was a self insurer, is that the evidence was insufficient to prove that the present disability was due to the second injury rather than to the first one.

There was evidence that the employee’s right hand was caught in a riveting machine on December 4, 1943, fracturing the fifth metacarpal bone and the proximal phalanges of the little and middle fingers, and…