Moran's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board that Catherine M. Moran, the claimant, a child of James Moran, who died on March 9, 1918, as the result of injuries received on February 21, 1918, while he was in the employ of a subscriber under the workmen’s compensation act, in the circumstances described in the opinion was entitled to be paid $2.38 per week during the statutory period as one partially dependent upon the employee.
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Appeal to the Superior Court from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board that Catherine M. Moran, the claimant, a child of James Moran, who died on March 9, 1918, as the result of injuries received on February 21, 1918, while he was in the employ of a subscriber under the workmen’s compensation act, in the circumstances described in the opinion was entitled to be paid $2.38 per week during the statutory period as one partially dependent upon the employee. In the Superior Court the case was heard by Chase, J., by whose order a decree was entered in accordance with the decree of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
In this proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act, the sole question is whether a minor under the age of eighteen who has been deserted by her father and is living apart from him for justifiable cause, is conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent on him for support, there being no surviving dependent parent. Partial dependency is admitted and it is conceded that the minor is at least entitled to the compensation awarded her by the’ Industrial Accident Board. If the question is answered in the negative, the decree of the Superior Court was rightly entered; if in the affirmative, the…
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