Crowley's Case

The city contends that no causal connection between the employee’s injuries and his general condition of paresis, rendering him insane and requiring his commitment to an asylum, is shown by the record, and therefore that the decree should be reversed. McNicol’s Case, 215 Mass. 497.

But the material evidence before the arbitration committee submitted without the introduction of further testimony to the Industrial Accident Board upon review, warranted the findings, that the employee had “a pre-existing constitutional disease, known as syphilis,” which, being dormant, left his ability to perform…