Beaudette's Case

The decisive question is whether the first and supplemental reports of persons purporting to act as industrial disease referees were controlling, as the board ruled they were, upon the issue whether the employee’s condition resulted from his work.

General Laws (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 9B, as inserted by St. 1935, c. 424, and amended by St. 1938, c. 462, provides in part that where, “at the time of filing a claim for compensation, an employee is claiming to be disabled as a result of an injury by industrial disease” one or more members of the board may appoint three impartial physicians as…