GILBANE BUILDING COMPANY v. Feeney

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which an employer filed a notice of intention to reduce the payment of compensation to an injured employee for total disability to the maximum payment for partial disability as provided for in general laws 1938, chapter 300, as amended by public laws 1954, chapter 3297, article III, sec. 12.

It is not disputed that the respondent, while employed as a laborer by the petitioner, on October 1, 1954 was injured when he fell down a flight of stairs at a housing construction project. A preliminary agreement was entered into by the parties whereby the employee…