Littlefield's Case

This is an appeal by the insurer from a decree entered in the Superior Court, in proceedings under the workmen’s compensation act, by which the claimant was awarded compensation for total incapacity for work resulting from a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment as a motorman by Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company. All the material evidence is reported.

The claimant testified that on December 9, 1931, when he had reached the end of his route and was turning over the seats in the car, his right hand became caught on the brass handle of one of the seats;…