Kennie v. City of Westbrook &/Or Nationwide Mutual Insurance

MARDEN, Justice.

Upon combined appeals from pro forma decrees by the Superior Court, based in turn upon separate decrees of the Industrial Accident Commission (Commission), which granted annulment of a compensation agreement and dismissed a petition for counsel fees.

The controversy originates in the death on August 11, 1966 of one Perley C. Ken-nie, an employee of the City of Westbrook, whose dependent widow seasonably filed claims for benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, (Act), the first, dated January 20, 1967, for accidental death of her husband, and later, dated May 16, 1967, for…