Legal Opinion
Booth's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 29, 1935PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act. It was based on an injury alleged to have been received by the employee while working for the insured at its works in Adams on April 8, 1932. The claim was filed on November 9, 1933. The testimony of the employee was that while lifting a heavy copper roll he felt a “severe pain shoot through his left groin and into his back.” He sat down and waited three quarters of an hour until the end of that working day. The shop shut down at that time for one or two weeks. A doctor was called on that day who “did not seem to know what the trouble…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Kangas's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Johnson's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- McLean's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Gaffer's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- McGowan's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Tassone's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
- Wnukowski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Herson's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960
- Zabec's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Russell's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
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