Sonia's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal under"the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board refusing compensation to Alfred J. Sonia for injuries alleged to have been received when he was in the employ of the Woodside Motor Company. The single board member, by whom the claim was heard, found, with a report of all the evidence, that the claim should be allowed.
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Appeal under"the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board refusing compensation to Alfred J. Sonia for injuries alleged to have been received when he was in the employ of the Woodside Motor Company. The single board member, by whom the claim was heard, found, with a report of all the evidence, that the claim should be allowed. Upon review, the full board, stating that the sole question before them was, “Whether the claimant was an employee under the act at the time of his injury,” found as a fact that he was not. In the Superior Court the case was heard by…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
The Industrial Accident Board on a “claim for review,” “upon all the evidence” found and ruled “that at the time the employee received the injury complained of he was not in the employ of the subscriber,” reversed the findings and rulings -of the member whodieard the parties and their witnesses, and dismissed the claim for compensation. In the Superior Court the action 'of the Industrial Accident Board was affirmed, and the claimant appealed to this court from a decree of the Superior Court dismissing the employee’s claim for compensation.
The claimant contends that “The board has no power, on…
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