Hebblewaite v. Powers

This is an employee’s appeal from a decree of the workmen’s compensation commission affirming •the trial commissioner’s decree which dismissed the employee’s petition to review his present earning capacity.

On July 1, 1954, the employee while working as a janitor in the Providence County courthouse fell down a stairway and was injured. He was incapacitated- for two weeks. It was not until June 29, 1956, however, that he filed a petition for workmen’s .compensation. A decree was- entered on November 15, 1956, awarding the employee medical expenses -and compensation -f-or total disability for…