Broadbent v. Providence Gas Co.

This is an employee’s petition to review a preliminary agreement under the workmen’s compensation act on the ground that his incapacity has returned or increased. It was heard by a trial commissioner who found that the petition was not supported by a fair preponderance of the evidence and entered a decree denying and dismissing the same. The case is before us on the petitioner’s appeal from a decree of the full commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner.

The record discloses that on or about February 1, 1951, while in the employ of respondent, the petitioner sustained a…