Sullivan's Case

This is an appeal by the insurer from a decree of the Superior Court affirming the findings of the Industrial Accident Board. G. L. c. 152.

The material facts are as follows: The employee’s contract of hire required her to wash and care for the silver and glassware of a hotel. She roomed upon the hotel premises in a room, supplied her by her employer, which she had used for about twelve years. She was permitted but not obliged to occupy this room. In the building where the room of the plaintiff was there were five or six rooms occupied by other employees, and furnished and heated for them. The…