Rice'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 in which they awarded compensation to Martha Rice, whose fingers were injured in the course of her employment, when, being sixteen years of age, she was a “spare time worker” in the Valley Woolen Mill at Cherry Valley, a village near Worcester.
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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 in which they awarded compensation to Martha Rice, whose fingers were injured in the course of her employment, when, being sixteen years of age, she was a “spare time worker” in the Valley Woolen Mill at Cherry Valley, a village near Worcester. The case was heard by J. F. Brown, J. The facts in regard to the only point in controversy are stated in the opinion. The judge made a decree in accordance with the decision of the Industrial…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court affirming a finding of the Industrial Accident Board. The only question involved in the appeal is whether there was any evidence to warrant the finding of the board that the average weekly wages of the employee were $7.50.
The employee, a girl sixteen years old, is found by the Industrial Accident Board to have been “a spare time worker; that is to say she worked in her spare time, after school, three hours five days and all day Saturday of each week, and earned approximately $3 a week.” The board also finds that a person working as a…
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