Underwood v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.

Me. Chief Justice'Neil

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which'the trial court awarded compensation on the theory that the employee was totally and permanently- disabled due ,to an occupational disease on October 12, 1954, -and entitled to recover $28 per week from October'19, 1954,- lintihthe sum of $8,500 is paid.

The original bill charged that the complainant suffers from “chemical poisoning” which resulted in painful dermatitis with ulcerations in his lower left leg; also resulting in pain in the small of the back. It is the further charge that as a…