Smith v. Heine Safety Boiler Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal by claimant from a decree of a single justice in conformity with the decision of the chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission, denying compensation to Bessie M. Smith claiming as dependent .widow of Warren H. Smith.
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On appeal by claimant from a decree of a single justice in conformity with the decision of the chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission, denying compensation to Bessie M. Smith claiming as dependent .widow of Warren H. Smith. On December 10, 1916, Warren H. Smith, alleged husband of claimant, a resident of Elmira, New York, while in the employment of Heine Safety Boiler Company in superintending the erection of four boilers for the Pepperell Manufacturing Company at Biddeford, Maine, sustained injuries by falling from a ladder which caused his death thirty-five minutes later. On October…
1Opinion of the CourtHanson, J.
This is an appeal from the decree of a single justice in conformity with the decision of the late chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission, denying compensation to Bessie M. Smith claiming as dependent widow of Warren H. Smith.
Warren H. Smith, the deceased employee, a man forty years of age, was at the time of the accident causing death, and for many years preceding, a resident of Elmira, New York. He had been employed *555by the Heine Safety Boiler Company since nineteen hundred, and at the date of his death and for two years prior thereto, he had been receiving ninety dollars per month…
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