A. P. Smith Manufacturing Co. v. Court of Common Pleas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lloyd, J.

A writ of certiorari was allowed in this case to review the action of the Common Pleas Court in reversing an order of a commissioner of the compensation bureau, which order dismissed the petition of Benjamin Kass for a rehearing of an award which had been adjusted eleven years before. Petitioner had an injury to the leg in 1916, and filed his petition in the Essex Common Pleas for compensation. On May 4th, 1917, an award was made on this petition for the sum of $798.25, and a further sum of $10 per week for a period of forty-three weeks. The…