Girard v. UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY

This is an employee’s original petition for compensation and medical expenses under the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, as amended by public laws 1954, chap. 3297. The case was heard by a trial commissioner, who on May 5, 1955 entered a decree wherein it was found that petitioner had suffered an injury to her back which resulted in coccygodynia and injuries to her head in the left occipital region which developed into an occipital neuralgia. It was also found that she had been totally disabled from July 31, 1954 to December 17, 1954.

The respondent took an appeal…