Quilty v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Reservation for the advice of this court, by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Webb, J., of a pro forma finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the third district.
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Reservation for the advice of this court, by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Webb, J., of a pro forma finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the third district. The following facts appear from the finding and award:— Francis Quilty, while in the employ of the defendant, was injured on June 7th, 1919, in the knee, resulting in an abscess, which caused incapacity from July 19th, 1919, to August 23d, 1920, and which resulted in his death on August 23d, 1920. Compensation was paid the deceased to the time of his death. His average weekly wage was $18.88. He was nineteen…
1Opinion of the CourtCurtis, J.
The question first presented for decision by the reservation is this: “Is the statute applicable to the rights of dependents the statute in force at the time of the injury, or that in force at the time of the death of the injured employee?”
Francis Quilty was injured on June 17th, 1919, and he died on August 23d, 1920. In the interval between his injury and his death, Chapter 142 of the Public Acts of 1919 came into effect? which Act, in § 6, materially changed the law as to the method of determining the compensation of partial dependents from the'method in force at the time of the injury and…
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