Franklin v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.

This is a workman’s compensation case and resulted in a dismissal by the lower court.

Hattie H.- Franklin was an employee of the defendant, Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, and sustained injuries arising out of and in the course of her employment which resulted in her death on the same day. The deceased was the wife of Phillip Franklin, the petitioner.

The petitioner was on the fourth day of January, 1944, the date of the fatal injuries to his wife, an employee of the defendant corporation, and had been continuously employed by defendant from June 22, 1943, up to and including January…