Gavaghan's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen’s compensation act, as amended, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board, awarding all the compensation allowed for the death of Hugh Gavaghan, late of Lowell, who died on December 15, 1917, from an injury received on December 11, 1917, to his widow Elizabeth Gavaghan, excluding the claim of his daughter Anna F. .Mason, who was decided not to be a dependent under the act.
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Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen’s compensation act, as amended, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board, awarding all the compensation allowed for the death of Hugh Gavaghan, late of Lowell, who died on December 15, 1917, from an injury received on December 11, 1917, to his widow Elizabeth Gavaghan, excluding the claim of his daughter Anna F. .Mason, who was decided not to be a dependent under the act. In the Superior Court the case was heard by Chase, J. The facts reported by the Industrial Accident Board are stated in the •opinion. The judge made a decree in…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
The following agreed statement of facts filed in the case contains all the evidence: “Hugh Gavaghan, late of Lowell in the County of Middlesex, deceased, the employee, while working at the Tremont and Suffolk Mills in said Lowell, received ¡a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employ*213ment, on the 11th day of December, 1917, from which death resulted on the 15th day of December, 1917. The employee left surviving him a wife by a third marriage, Lizzie Gavaghan, of said Lowell, with whom he was living at the time of his death, and one child, Anna F. Mason, of said Lowell, by…
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