Levesque v. Levesque

DELAHANTY, Justice.

Eva Levesque, the petitioner, was injured on October 2, 1967, while she was working on a harvester in a potato field owned and farmed by her husband, Otis Levesque, the individual defendant. Mrs. Levesque filed a petition for an award of compensation with the Industrial Accident Commission which was dismissed on the “jurisdictional” ground that, with respect to this claimant, Otis Levesque was not an “assenting employer” within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Act as that Act was effective at the time of the injury. From a pro forma decree of the Superior Court…