Bullock v. United States Rubber Co.

This is an employee’s original petition to obtain workmen’s compensation under general laws 1938, chapter 300. After a hearing in the superior court the trial justice granted the petition and a final decree was entered awarding the petitioner compensation for total incapacity at the rate of $28 per week from August 1 to November 24, 1952 and also ordering the respondent to pay certain medical and other expenses. The case is before us on the employer’s appeal from the entry of such decree.

The petition alleges that the employee suffered a compensable injury while “Dipping reels into carbon…