Since it also appears that this language has been preserved by the Legislature from the time when the Superior Court was the only original tribunal through the period when it was an alternate tribunal and to its present position as an appeal tribunal the conclusion is inescapable that the same trial is intended now as then. The evident purpose of the Legislature in 1955 was to provide a quick informal hearing with the right to either party to obtain a more formal and extensive hearing on appeal to the Superior Court. See Streeter v. New Eng. Box Co., 106 N.H. 146; U.S. Fidelity c. Company v. Gagne, 102 N.H. 290. The burden of proof in a trial of a workmen's compensation case is upon the claimant.