CARR FULFLEX, INCORPORATED v. Borges

This is an employee’s appeal from a decree of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission which on the employer’s petition to review had found that the employee had partially regained his earning capacity and so ordered a reduction in the weekly benefit paid the employee.

The employee had been receiving total disability payments of $45 a week as a result of a work-related injury he sustained on February 13, 1967. In January 1968, he and his wife purchased a one family home in Bristol. The first floor of these premises contained a small grocery store. The employee testified that he started to operate…