Sinclair's Case

This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court affirming a finding of the Industrial Accident Board and ordering that the insurer pay to the dependent the sum of $4,000 “ in weekly payments of $10, beginning with the tenth day of August, 1922, and continuing according to the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act (G. L. c. 152).”

Two questions are raised.

1. Was there causal relation between the employee’s death on August 10, 1922, and his injury of January 28, 1922 ?

2. Did the Superior Court properly allow the dependent $4,000 compensation without deducting therefrom the sum of…