Savage's Case

Under the workmen’s compensation act the findings of the Industrial Accident Board are equivalent to the verdict of a jury or the findings of a judge, and are not to be set aside if there is any evidence to support them. Pigeon’s Case, 216 Mass. 51. Diaz’s Case, 217 Mass. 36.

The Industrial Accident Board made the following findings: “The employee, Joseph W. Savage, did not receive a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment; that his death occurred by reason of his unexplained absence from the car which he was engaged in unloading; that his presence on the railroad…