Auclair v. American Silk Spinning Company

This is an employee’s appeal from a decree of the full Workmen’s Compensation Commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner denying and dismissing his petition for specific benefits.

On May 12, 1964, the employee injured his left shoulder while in the employ of the respondent employer. On June 26, 1964, the parties entered into a preliminary agreement which described the nature and location of the injury as a “tear of rotator cuff left shoulder.” The employee was out of work and received compensation and medical benefits under the preliminary agreement until September 14, 1964,…