Moran's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen's compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Margaret Moran, widow of John Moran, whose death was alleged to have resulted from an injury received by him in the late afternoon of January 2, 1919, as described in the opinion, when he was in the employ of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen's compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Margaret Moran, widow of John Moran, whose death was alleged to have resulted from an injury received by him in the late afternoon of January 2, 1919, as described in the opinion, when he was in the employ of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. In the Superior Court, the case was heard by Lawton, J. The evidence and findings reported by the Industrial Accident Board are described in the opinion. By order of the judge, a decree was entered in…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
The evidence warranted a finding that the decedent, who was a solicitor and collector in the employ of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, on the evening of January 2, 1919, left his home on Harvard Avenue, Dorchester, intending to take a surface car, running to Dudley Street, at a white post opposite Harvard Avenue on Washington Street; that the car had passed the white post without stopping before he had an opportunity to board it; that he then ran from Harvard Avenue diagonally across Washington Street in the direction of the car; that the next stop was at Norwell Street, five…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hewitt's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Donahue's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Keaney's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
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- McCulloch v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1927
- Harivel v. Hall-Thompson Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- Cook's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Income Life Ins. Co. v. MitchellTennessee Supreme Court · 1935
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