Cranney's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Mary E. Cranney, as the dependent widow of Charles W. Cranney, who was employed by the Hotel Essex in Boston as head waiter and was shot and killed on August 28, 1916, by a waiter whom he had discharged. The case was heard by J. F. Brown, J. The evidence reported by the Industrial Accident Board is stated in the opinion.
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Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen’s compensation act from a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Mary E. Cranney, as the dependent widow of Charles W. Cranney, who was employed by the Hotel Essex in Boston as head waiter and was shot and killed on August 28, 1916, by a waiter whom he had discharged. The case was heard by J. F. Brown, J. The evidence reported by the Industrial Accident Board is stated in the opinion. The judge made a decree in accordance with the decision of the Industrial Accident Board, awarding to the dependent widow compensation…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The case was heard in the first instance by a single member of the Industrial Accident Board, whose decision for the claimant was affirmed on review by the full board. While the insurer concedes that there was some evidence to support most of the findings of fact, we are satisfied upon reading the evidence which includes the statement of Zacharachi who shot and killed the employee, that all of the findings were warranted. The findings were as follows: “that the employee . . . was shot and killed on August 28, 1916, by one Sicilianos Zacharachi; that the deceased was head waiter at the Hotel…
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- Madden's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Von Ette's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Reithel's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Harbroe's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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- Todd v. Easton Furniture Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1925
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