Larke v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decision of the Compensation Commissioner of the fifth district awarding compensation to the plaintiff for the death of her husband from injuries arising out of and in the course of his employment by the defendant Life Insurance Company, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Case, J.; the court sustained the findings and award of the commissioner and dismissed the appeal, and from this judgment the defendants appealed.
Read the full summary
Appeal from a decision of the Compensation Commissioner of the fifth district awarding compensation to the plaintiff for the death of her husband from injuries arising out of and in the course of his employment by the defendant Life Insurance Company, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Case, J.; the court sustained the findings and award of the commissioner and dismissed the appeal, and from this judgment the defendants appealed. The commissioner found the following facts: The claimant was living with Henry J. Larke prior to his decease as his wife, and was entirely…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
Several of the assignments of error are based upon findings which are claimed to be without the evidence or contrary to it. Two of these are of importance to the decision. One is, that the decedent, on Thursday, February 26th, froze his nose and the tissues adjacent thereto and then suffered a frost-bite.
There was evidence that the day was very cold; that the decedent, a robust and healthy man, left his home at quarter to six in the morning of this day and drove in the course of his business fifteen or twenty miles, making about fifty calls by going in and out of heated buildings; that when…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- McNicol's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Bryant v. FissellSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1913
- Sponatski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Burns's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Hurle's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
1 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.
3Cited by158 opinions
- Lumberman's Reciprocal Ass'n. v. BehnkenTexas Supreme Court · 1922
- New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. SumrellCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1923
- Gonier v. Chase Companies, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1921
- Smith v. University of IdahoIdaho Supreme Court · 1946
- Thornton v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1945
153 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.