Legal Opinion
Roney's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 13, 1944PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, C.J.
This is a workmen’s compensation case (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 152) arising out of the death from injury of the employee, George S. Roney. Henrietta Burroughs — herein referred to as the claimant — claimed compensation as a dependent of the employee. She appealed to this court from a decree of the Superior Court reciting that “the employee left no dependents” and awarding no compensation to her. The word “dependents” as used in the workmen’s compensation law is defined thereby as “members of the employee’s family or next of kin who were wholly or partly dependent upon the earnings of the employee…
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