Von Ette's Case

This is an appeal from a decree entered in the Superior Court * under the workmen’s compensation act. The facts as disclosed by the evidence are briefly as follows:

George C. Von Ette, the deceased, was in the employ of the Globe Newspaper Company, in Boston, as a compositor. He met his death on the night of June 21,1914. He went to work on the evening of June 21, and his employment for that night would have been finished at a quarter before two o’clock, the next morning. He was last seen alive about eleven o’clock. His dead body was found the next morning at a quarter before four o’clock upon…