Beckles's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court under St. 1911, c. 751, Part III, § 11, as amended by St. 1912, c. 571, § 14, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation of $2 a week for five hundred weeks to or for the benefit of Jane Viola Beckles of Barbadoes, the partly dependent widow of Fitz Henry Beckles, who died from an injury received on January 14,1915, in the course, of and arising out of his employment when he was in the employ of the S. Vorenberg…
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Appeal to the Superior Court under St. 1911, c. 751, Part III, § 11, as amended by St. 1912, c. 571, § 14, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation of $2 a week for five hundred weeks to or for the benefit of Jane Viola Beckles of Barbadoes, the partly dependent widow of Fitz Henry Beckles, who died from an injury received on January 14,1915, in the course, of and arising out of his employment when he was in the employ of the S. Vorenberg Company in Boston, and deciding that the injury -of the employee was not due to the serious and wilful misconduct of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act. The employee was killed on January 14, 1915, while operating an elevator. Aside from the exclusion by the Industrial Accident Board of certain evidence offered by the claimant, the question presented is, whether the finding of the board that the injury was not due to the serious and wilful misconduct of the employer was wholly unwarranted. St. 1911, c. 751, Part II, § 3 as amended by St. 1912, c. 571, § 1.
If the finding as made was not warranted, the claimant is entitled to have the compensation doubled in accordance with the statute.…
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