Gleason's Case

This is an appeal by the claimant from a decree of the Superior Court in accordance with the findings and decision of the Industrial Accident Board. The employee, George W. Gleason, received an injury July 3, 1928, arising out of and in the course of his employment and resulting in his death on September 22, 1928. The claimant and employee were married while he was a patient at the Boston City Hospital on August 4, 1928. He was then eighty years of age and she seventy-six. He left the hospital *584on August 18, returned again August 28 and remained until his death.

The single member found that…