Bott'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 that Anna M. Morgan, formerly Anna M. Bott, to whom an award of $10 a week for a period of four hundred weeks from March 30, 1915, was made as, the dependent widow- of Royal P. Bott, an employee of the Otis Elevator Company, who died on April 10,1915, as the result of an injury received in the course of his employment on…
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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 that Anna M. Morgan, formerly Anna M. Bott, to whom an award of $10 a week for a period of four hundred weeks from March 30, 1915, was made as, the dependent widow- of Royal P. Bott, an employee of the Otis Elevator Company, who died on April 10,1915, as the result of an injury received in the course of his employment on March 30, 1915, continued to be entitled to such compensation until the termination of the period of the award,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The question presented on this record is whether a woman, awarded compensation because she is the widow of an employee who lost his life from injuries arising out of and in the course of his employment by a subscriber under the workmen's compensation act, is barred from receiving further payments upon her remarriage. It is manifest from the facts found that in fact she is no longer dependent for her support upon the payments received under the act.
It was held in Murphy’s Case, 224 Mass. 592, that the right to payments under the act was not vested, and ceased upon the death of the dependent.…
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