Murphy'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 to Daniel Murphy as partly dependent for support on the earnings of his son Walter Murphy, a minor fifteen years of age, who received a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment which resulted in his death on September 26, 1912, the sum of $4 a week for three hundred weeks from September…
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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 to Daniel Murphy as partly dependent for support on the earnings of his son Walter Murphy, a minor fifteen years of age, who received a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment which resulted in his death on September 26, 1912, the sum of $4 a week for three hundred weeks from September 20, 1912, the date of the injury, in accordance with the terms of St. 1911, c. 751, Part II, § 6. The case was heard by…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
At the time Walter Murphy was injured he was fifteen years of age and was earning $5.67 a week, all of which he had been turning over to his father, Daniel Murphy. The latter’s family consisted of his wife and nine minor children, including Walter. Of these children three were at work “earning in the aggregate $21.67 per week, which was turned over to the father.” The father earned about $10.50 a week, and these sums constituted the entire income of the family and were all “needed and used for their support, there being no surplus remaining.” The father maintained his son Walter, furnishing…
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