Stacy'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 to Philomene Stacy, as the dependent widow of Frank Stacy, an employee of the Leominster Ice Company, the sum of $4,000 payable in weekly instalments of $9.35 from January 20, 1916, which was the date of the death of the employee by breaking through the ice and drowning in Col-burn’s Pond in Leominster. - The…
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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 to Philomene Stacy, as the dependent widow of Frank Stacy, an employee of the Leominster Ice Company, the sum of $4,000 payable in weekly instalments of $9.35 from January 20, 1916, which was the date of the death of the employee by breaking through the ice and drowning in Col-burn’s Pond in Leominster. - The case was heard by Jenney, J. The facts found by the arbitration committee and reported by the Industrial Accident Board are…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an appeal from a decree entered in the Superior Court under the workmen’s compensation act. The claimant’s decedent was drowned on January 20, 1916, by reason of breaking through the ice of Colburn’s Pond in Leominster, while on his way home from work. Up to the time of his death, he had been employed by the insured in the ice-house, in the work of storing ice which was cut from the pond. The ice-house was situated at the southerly end of the pond and the decedent lived on Exchange Street in Leominster, directly north from the ice-house, across the pond.
The evidence showed that there…
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