Boulanger v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Roger H. Boulanger, plaintiff, was employed as a glass cutter by Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Company, and on July 17, 1941, while engaged in his hazardous duties, a piece of plate glass fell and struck his left arm just above the elbow, which necessitated the amputation of the member three or four inches above the elbow. He was paid compensation for two hundred weeks (plus thirteen additional weeks allegedly paid in error). The present suit is for the remainder of four hundred weeks based upon the contention that the loss of the arm rendered him permanently and totally disabled from doing work of…