Collins's Case

This is an appeal by the city of Quincy, a self insurer, from a decree awarding compensation to a widow on account of the death of her husband, an employee, in accordance with a decision of the reviewing board which reversed the findings and decision of the single member.

The deceased, sixty-eight years of age, had been employed by the forestry department of the city for several years. On March 28, 1-956, Andrew Stewart, the superintendent of the forestry department, requested his foreman, Francis Keegan, to pick up an order of coal at a Quincy coal yard and deliver it to premises owned by…