McManaman's Case

This is an appeal under the workmen’s compensation act by the insurer from a decree entered * upon an award in favor of the employee. The ground of the appeal is that as matter of law the injury which was suffered by the petitioner was not an injury arising out of his employment.

The facts were these: The petitioner was employed as a longshoreman. While he was at work at Pier 46 Mystic Wharf, Charlestown, in January, 1914, both hands were more or less frozen. As a result he lost two phalanges of the little finger of *555one hand, all the little finger of the other hand and has been incapacitated…