De Zeng Standard Co. v. Pressey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This case arises tinder the Workmen’s Compeusafion act of 1911, and the principal question argued is whether the petitioner should receive an award for the permanent impairment of the function of his right arm, when it is shown that he lias been earning the same pay as he earned before the accident.

The petitioner, as a carpenter in the employ of the prosecutor, earned $20 a week. He sustained an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment which caused a fracture of the bone of the forearm known as the radius at or near the…