Fontaine v. Tupper Co.

This is an employee’s original petition seeking compensation for incapacity for work allegedly resulting from an injury arising out of and in the course of her employment with the respondent, connected therewith and referable thereto. It was heard by a single commissioner who found that the petitioner had failed to sustain the burden of proof and entered a decree denying and dismissing the petition. The cause is before us on the petitioner’s appeal from a decree of the full commission affirming the decree of the single commissioner.

The pertinent facts are undisputed. On January 21, 1960,…