Haynes v. Silas Mason Co.

This is a compensation suit in which plaintiff claims compensation at the rate of $20 per week for total disability, arising from injuries suffered in an accident on the 4th day of March, 1942. At the time of the accident plaintiff was employed by the defendant, Silas Mason Company, as a blacksmith, and, while using a pair of tongs in the process of shaping some rings, sustained a fall caused by the breaking of the tongs. As a result of the fall plaintiff claims to have suffered such injury to his right shoulder and arm as to be permanently and totally incapacitated from performing manual…