Legal Opinion
Moores's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 2, 1948PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, C.J.
The self insurer appeals from a decree of the Superior Court awarding compensation under the workmen’s compensation law to the employee for an injury suf*164fered by him on June 28, 1945, as the result of slipping on the step of a gun mount, while he was aboard a vessel in a dry dock floating in navigable water at the self insurer’s plant at East Boston.
The principal question relates to the applicability of the State compensation law. The board’s subsidiary findings of fact, which must control if there is any inconsistency between them and more general findings, are in substance these: The vessel…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Southern Pacific Company v. JensenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Davis v. Department of Labor and Industries of Wash.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co. v. RohdeSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- The Robert W. ParsonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Millers' Indemnity Underwriters v. BraudSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
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3Cited by45 opinions
- T. Smith & Son, Inc. v. Frank WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1960
- Clyde Flowers v. The Travelers Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
- Conrad Peter, in No. 88-3797 v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp., in No. 88-3798Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1990
- Baskin v. Industrial Accident CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Western Boat Bldg. Co. v. O'LearyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1952
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