Hallett's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court under St. 1911, c. 751, Part III, § 11, as amended by St. 1912, c. 571, § 14, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to John Lawrence Hallett as the dependent husband of Gertrude O. Hallett, ■ who died on August 18, 1917, by falling at the top of a flight of granite steps leading to the store where she was employed as a bookkeeper by the S. K. Dexter Company, a corporation carrying on the business of a wholesale…
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Appeal to the Superior Court under St. 1911, c. 751, Part III, § 11, as amended by St. 1912, c. 571, § 14, from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to John Lawrence Hallett as the dependent husband of Gertrude O. Hallett, ■ who died on August 18, 1917, by falling at the top of a flight of granite steps leading to the store where she was employed as a bookkeeper by the S. K. Dexter Company, a corporation carrying on the business of a wholesale grocer at Lowell. The case was heard by Wait, J. The evidence on which the decision of the Industrial Accident Board was…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The deceased employee, on August 18,1917, when returning from lunch, fell, while ascending a flight of granite steps on her employer’s premises, and received injuries which caused her death. Her husband, claimant, testified: “She had a grip about fourteen inches long and ten inches high in the left hand, and in the right hand a regular grip, a Gladstone Bag, about eighteen inches long and about a foot high. She had a sweater on her arm. The bags had things in them.” The steps in question were five in number; they were eight inches high and twelve inches wide except the bottom step which was…
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