State v. Comp. Com.

Petitioner seeks by mandamus to require the state compensation commissioner to grant him a rehearing under section 43, c. 71, Acts 1929, from an order of said commissioner refusing him further compensation for an injury to his leg, which he alleges to be total and permanent in nature. A demurrer to the petition and motion to quash the alternative writ awarded thereon were interposed on behalf of the commissioner, who for return denied the extent of injury set up in the petition, alleging that 25 per cent. partial total disability is the full measure of the injury, and in support thereof…