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London Guarantee & Accident Co. v. Sterling

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided September 11, 1919PublishedCited by 34 opinions

Two petitions, filed in the Superior Court on October 1, 1917, to vacate decrees of that court purporting to have been made under the workmen’s compensation act ordering the London Guarantee and Accident Company, Limited, to pay to the dependent widows of William E. Sterling and William L. Sterling each $10 weekly for a period of four hundred weeks from November 2, 1916, in accordance with agreements filed with the Industrial Accident Board on March .21, 1917; also Two…

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Two petitions, filed in the Superior Court on October 1, 1917, to vacate decrees of that court purporting to have been made under the workmen’s compensation act ordering the London Guarantee and Accident Company, Limited, to pay to the dependent widows of William E. Sterling and William L. Sterling each $10 weekly for a period of four hundred weeks from November 2, 1916, in accordance with agreements filed with the Industrial Accident Board on March .21, 1917; also Two petitions, filed in the Superior Court' on September 6, 1918, by the insurer for leave to file bills of review under general…

1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.

Before November 2, 1916, the London Guarantee and Accident Company, Limited, issued to one T. Owen Tully a policy of insurance under the workmen’s compensation act to cover a period from January 3, 1916, to January 3, 1917. On November 2, 1916, William E. Sterling, the deceased husband of Rena E. Sterling, and William L. Sterling, the deceased husband of Maud M. Sterling, employees of the said T. Owen Tully, a carpenter contractor, in the course of their employment while engaged in installing shifting boards on the steamship Devonian while the steamship was lying at the wharf in Boston…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Southern Pacific Company v. JensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
  2. Gould's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
  3. Sawyer v. DavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
  4. Boston Diatite Co. v. Florence Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
  5. Levangie's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917

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3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of RepresentativesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
  2. Nagy v. Ford Motor Co.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1951
  3. Donnelly v. MontagueMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
  4. Sciola's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
  5. Gillard's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923

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