Legal Opinion
Zucchi's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 30, 1941PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
The employee sustained what was diagnosed as a “heat stroke” while digging a pier footing for his employer. The pier footing, about eight by eight feet in area, was being excavated within a larger excavated area of about forty by fifty feet, that was about ten feet below the surface of the surrounding ground. The pier footing was to be dug to a depth of two and one half feet, and the employee had been at work there for about three and one half hours in the afternoon when he was stricken. There was evidence that the day, April 25, 1939, which was clear and sunny from sunrise to sunset, was…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Duralith Corp. v. LeonardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
- Di Clavio's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Rozek's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Cahill's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Percival's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Charon's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Roney's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Sawyer's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Bajdek's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Mandell's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
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