Glennon's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Certification, filed in the Superior Court under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board, finding that the death of Patrick Glennon while in the employ of Frank Jones Brewery Company “resulted from pulmonary tuberculosis caused by traumatism to his ribs and chest on April 25, 1918, this traumatism occurring while the employee was in the course of his employment, and arising out of such employment,” and awarding…
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Certification, filed in the Superior Court under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board, finding that the death of Patrick Glennon while in the employ of Frank Jones Brewery Company “resulted from pulmonary tuberculosis caused by traumatism to his ribs and chest on April 25, 1918, this traumatism occurring while the employee was in the course of his employment, and arising out of such employment,” and awarding compensation to the claimant, the employee’s widow. In the Superior Court the case was heard by Sisk, J., by whose order a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The finding of the Industrial Accident Board was to the effect in substance that the death of the employee resulted from pulmonary tuberculosis induced by injuries to his ribs, chest and back, received by being thrown violently to the hub of a wheel and thence to the curbstone from the seat of the employer’s wagon where he was engaged in his regular work, through the striking of the wagon by an automobile. This must stand if there was any evidence to support it. Pass’s Case, 232 Mass. 515, and cases there collected. Manifestly there was personal injury arising out of and in the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Madden's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Pass's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Crowley's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
3Cited by11 opinions
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- Green's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
- Murphy's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
- Milford Copper Co. v. Industrial CommissionUtah Supreme Court · 1922
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