Picanardi v. Emerson Hotel Co.

The appellant was employed as a baker by the Emerson Hotel Company. The compensation paid him by the company was fifty dollars per month and board. On July 1, 1917, his left hand was caught in a bread mixer, and he sustained injuries which, in the judgment of the State Industrial Accident Commission, hereinafter referred to as the Commission, amounted to a “disability partial in character but permanent in quality/’ entitling him to an amount of ■compensation equal to fifty per centum of his average weekly wages.

There was no agreement between the appellant and the Emerson Hotel Company at the…