Pallotta's Case

This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court in accordance with the decision of the board member and, on review, of the Industrial Accident Board, which awarded compensation to the widow of Gaetano Pallotta under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, G. L. c. 152.

Pallotta was a laborer, at intervals employed by Jeremiah Sullivan to shovel sand, at a sand pit or bank owned or controlled by the wife of Sullivan. Before Mrs. Sullivan acquired her interest in the land, Sullivan was engaged in the general trucking business in the city of Springfield, with one truck. After the…