Garofola v. Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.

The commissioner found that the plaintiff, while working as a molder in the employ of the named defendant, suffered a low back sprain, and awarded him compensation. The defendants filed a motion to have the finding corrected as to certain subordinate facts, and a contrary conclusion reached, and upon the denial of this motion they appealed to the Superior Court. That court sustained the appeal upon the ground, as stated in its memorandum of decision, that there was “the concomitance of pain with the performance of the duties of claimant’s employment but there is nothing to indicate any…