DaGraca v. Feist

This is an action of tort for personal injuries and consequential damages sustained when the plaintiff wife (the employee) stepped into a depression in a walk owned and controlled by the defendants. The defendants asserted that the employee had filed a claim for workmen’s compensation more than six months after the injury and that her action was therefore barred by G. L. c. 152, § 15, as appearing in St. 1943, c. 432. The judge made written findings of fact pursuant to a stipulation that his findings would be final. After verdicts for the plaintiffs had been returned under leave reserved, the…