Pimental's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal under the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board granting compensation of $14 a week to the employee for injuries, described in the opinion, found by the board to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment by Alies and Fisher Cigar Company. In the Superior Court the appeal was heard by Wait, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Appeal under the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board granting compensation of $14 a week to the employee for injuries, described in the opinion, found by the board to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment by Alies and Fisher Cigar Company. In the Superior Court the appeal was heard by Wait, J. Material evidence is described in the opinion. A decree was entered in accordance with the decision of the Industrial Accident Board; and the insurer appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
The employee is a cigar maker and worked continually at his trade for fourteen or fifteen years. Early in the year 1918 he began to have pain in the region of the back of his neck, and in February or March, 1919, he consulted a physician who told him that he had occupational neurosis. On May 2,1919, he was obliged to give up his work.
William J. Daly, the impartial physician, testified that the employee had “ an undeveloped left side; a shortened left leg with sinuses from old pus processes about the left buttock and the anterior surface of the hip; . . . faulty posture both in standing and…
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