Gibbons v. United Electric Railways Co.

This is a petition filed in reliance upon the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

It was heard before a justice of the Superior Court, who gave decision and entered a decree that the petitioner, while in the employ of the respondent, received a personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of said employment “necessitating the amputation of the distal phalange of the big toe of the left foot and the distal phalange of the little toe of the right foot.” The decree further provided for the payment of compensation by the respondent to the petitioner of a sum which the…