Sotomayor v. Ford Motor Co.

Defendant appeals from award of the department of labor and industry, entered December 27, 1940, granting plaintiff further compensation of $12.80 per week for partial disability. Such award reversed an order of the deputy commissioner denying plaintiff further compensation, on the ground that plaintiff's loss of wages "was due to his being confined as a leper and not because of any disability in his hand and forearm."

On about August 14, 1929 (sometimes stated in the record as September 14, 1929), while employed on a piston grinding machine in defendant's plant, plaintiff, an experienced…