Watson's Case

The employee, after working for more than twenty years as a truck driver for the insured, a lumber dealer, although for the last five years one fourth of his time was spent in repairing and painting property owned by the employer, became ill and was compelled to quit his employment in November, 1942. After painting he would wash the paint from his hands and forearms with a paint remover or thinner. He was confined to a Boston hospital for a little more than a week in March, 1943, and for three days in June, 1943. He died in a Needham hospital in July, 1943. The insurer has appealed from a…