Marvin's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal under the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding to the claimant, the widow of the employee, $9.33 per week for a period of weeks representing an entire payment of $4,000. In the Superior Court the case was heard by Jenney, J. Material findings of the single member of the board were in substance as follows: The employee on December 9,1917, received an injury by reason of being burned by wax which he was heating on the gas…
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Appeal under the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding to the claimant, the widow of the employee, $9.33 per week for a period of weeks representing an entire payment of $4,000. In the Superior Court the case was heard by Jenney, J. Material findings of the single member of the board were in substance as follows: The employee on December 9,1917, received an injury by reason of being burned by wax which he was heating on the gas stove for the purpose of polishing the floors of one Kincaide in the Alpha Building in Quincy, and died as the result of…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The deceased, Clarence J. Marvin, had been employed as a janitor by one Kincaide for several years prior to March 3, 1917, when he left and went to work for the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation, where he was employed continuously until his injury. Later, the wife of the deceased was engaged to do a substantial part of the janitor work previously performed by her husband. She received a stated weekly compensation therefor. Her husband, at the suggestion of Kincaide, occasionally assisted her or worked in her stead when she was tired, for which he received no compensation. In April, 1917,…
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