Paltsios's Case

The employee, a high school student, was injured on September 22, 1945, when he was sixteen years of age while working in a store when his right hand became caught in a meat grinder, resulting in the amputation of the hand. The case was here before on the question of double compensation. Paltsios’s Case, 325 Mass. 356. It is here now on an appeal by the insurer from a decree ordering the insurer to pay a lump sum award of $13,575.21 less a small deduction.

The employee sought a lump sum settlement under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 48, which reads in part, “The department, in the case of a minor…