Mahoney's Case

This is an appeal by the self insurer from a decree of the Superior Court allowing an award of compensation under the workmen’s compensation act. The reviewing board affirmed and adopted the findings and decision of the single member who found that the employee suffered an industrial injury due to the gradual accumulation of asbestos dust and that the date of injury was August 10, 1948, the last day of employment. See DeFilippo’s Case, 284 Mass. 531, 533-534. He further found that the employee was totally disabled from the date of his injury until the date of his death on April 11, 1956, and…