Stone's Case

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act. The employee, a shoe worker, was injured on June 26, 1934, when he lost the terminal phalange *659of his right thumb. He returned to work on October 29, 1934, and continued until July 1, 1935, when he met with a second injury which resulted in the loss of the remaining phalange of the same thumb. He returned to work on November 4, 1935, and was employed until he was laid off on March 26, 1936. A single member of the Industrial Accident Board, after a hearing, made a decision on December 15, 1936, in which he found that the average weekly…