MacKenzie-Walton Co. v. LaRochelle

This is an employer's petition brought pursuant to the provisions of G. L. 1956, §28-35-45, to review a decree in which the Workmen's Compensation Commission awarded the respondent employee compensation for total incapacity. The petition was heard by a trial commissioner, who entered a decree finding that the respondent’s incapacity for work was partial, that he had made no bona fide effort to find suitable employment, and reduced the compensation from total to partial. From this decree, the respondent appealed to the full commission, primarily on the ground that the trial commissioner erred…