Laganiere v. Bonte Spinning Co.

This is an employee’s petition to review a December 3, 1965 decree granting her incapacity benefits. A trial commissioner denied her relief because she had failed to prove a bona fide attempt to obtain suitable work consistent with the effects of her injury and within her ability to perform. She appealed and the full commission affirmed. The case is now here on her appeal from the full commission’s decree.

The petitioner is 57 years old. While employed as a spinner in respondent’s textile mill, she sustained a compensable injury for which she received total disability compensation payments…