Mitchell v. Department of Highways

This is a compensation suit in which plaintiff alleges that following an accident in which he suffered cuts and lacerations of the fingers of his right hand causing temporary disability over a period of some five weeks, during which time defendants paid compensation, and after returning to work he suffered a series of minor accidents to his hand which contributed to his alleged total and permanent disability. The so-called minor accidents consisted of abrasions and the knocking off of scabs formed by the healing of the wounds received in the first accident.

Plaintiff's claim of disability is…