Gauthier's Case
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal from a decision of the chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission. On April 23, 1918, Mathias Gauthier, petitioner, while in the employment of the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company, respondent, suffered a broken leg by accident arising out of and in the course of such employment. Under an agreement compensation was paid from date of injury to Jan. 20, 1919. Petitioner returned to work, but his injury grew no better, and on Jan. 19, 1920, his leg was amputated.
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On appeal from a decision of the chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission. On April 23, 1918, Mathias Gauthier, petitioner, while in the employment of the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company, respondent, suffered a broken leg by accident arising out of and in the course of such employment. Under an agreement compensation was paid from date of injury to Jan. 20, 1919. Petitioner returned to work, but his injury grew no better, and on Jan. 19, 1920, his leg was amputated. On 0.ct. 13, 1920, the chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission, upon a new petition, dated May 31, 1920, decreed…
1Opinion of the CourtDeasy, J.
The record shows that on April 23rd, 1918 the petitioner Mathias Gauthier of Old Town suffered a broken leg as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company.
Under an agreement filed with, but not approved by, the Industrial Accident Commission, compensation was paid from the date *75of the injury to Jan. 20, 1919. Then payment of compensation was discontinued, such discontinuance being impliedly approved by decree signed by Chairman Dutton dated May 17, 1919.
The petitioner returned to work, but his condition apparently grew worse…
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