Walter Marshall Spinning Corp. v. Di Vona

This is an employer’s petition to review an employee’s total incapacity. It is before us on the employee’s appeal from a decree of the workmen’s compensation commission which affirmed the finding of the trial commissioner that the employee was able to perform light work.

While working for her employer as a spinner, the employee was injured on July 17, 1964. Her injury is described as a “Chip Fracture Distal Phalanx Right Thumb.” In support of its petition to review, the employer presented as a witness before the trial commissioner a well-qualified physician who had examined the employee on…