Bacon v. United Electric Railways Co.

This is a petition under the Workmen’s Compensation Act for commutation of weekly payments to a lump sum. The petitioner’s husband, in an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, received injuries from which he died, leaving his wife, the petitioner, as his sole dependent. On November 24, 1928 the respondent, who was the husband’s employer, and the petitioner entered into an agreement for weekly compensation for three hundred weeks, in accordance with the provisions of said act, General Laws, 1923, Chapter 92. From said twenty-fourth day of November, 1928 until the filing…