Chase v. General Electric Co.

This is an original petition brought under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, to obtain compensation from the respondent, which previously was the petitioner’s employer. Following a hearing in the superior court the trial justice entered a final decree denying and dismissing the petition, whereupon the petitioner duly prosecuted his appeal to this court.

It appears from the evidence that he was employed from December 1949 to May 11, 1953 as a stock clerk in the Newport plant of General Electric Company, sometimes referred to as Monowatt — A…