Legal Opinion
Akins's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 10, 1939PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court ordering the insurer to pay a lump sum award to the employee, in accordance with a decision of he Industrial Accident Board. The board found that the employee, a minor, at the date of his injury on December 29, 1934, received a permanently disabling injury which resulted in *563a “reduction of vision in the left eye to 20/70th of normal with glasses”; that the employee’s apprehension of further injury in continuing the same kind of work at which he was injured was reasonable and was an adequate cause for seeking work elsewhere; that he has a…
2Cases cited48 opinions
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- Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Steward MacHine Co. v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Mountain Timber Company v. State of WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Charon's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Delano v. City of South PortlandSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
- Murphy v. Commissioner of the Department of Industrial AccidentsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Indrisano's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Paltsios's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
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