Dillon's Case

On November 17, 1942, the employee, who had previously lost the sight of one eye, lost the sight of the other eye and became totally and permanently blind as the result of a blow struck by a fellow workman, named Kenney, while the employee, Dillon, was acting as a “gang leader” for Boston Tidewater Terminal, Inc., and was in charge of a gang of eight men engaged in unloading a car of cement in bags on a wharf at the army base in Boston.

The evidence received by the single member of the Industrial Accident Board was in part conflicting and was largely repetitive as the members of the gang and…