Karelis's Case

There was testimony that on October 17, 1950, the employee, while plugging an electric iron into an outlet in the course of her employment by Cherry & Webb Company in Lawrence, suffered an electric shock. An impartial physician reported that the employee’s condition was causally related to that shock. The single member found that the employee sustained a disabling injury in her left arm that arose out of and in the course of her employment, and that she is entitled to compensation. The reviewing board affirmed and adopted the findings of the single member. But the Superior Court entered a…