DiVona v. Haverhill Shoe Novelty Co.

This is an employee’s petition brought under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, as amended by public laws 1954, chap. 3297, to review a preliminary agreement for compensation on the ground of an alleged decrease in her earning capacity, and for the allowance of certain medical fees.

During a hearing before a single commissioner of the workmen’s compensation commission the employee introduced evidence to show that certain psychical effects had developed from the injury set out in the preliminary agreement of May 8, 1951, and the single commissioner entered a decree…