Healey's Case

On the ninth day of September in 1918, Eva M. Healey, an employee of the Dingley-Foss Shoe Company, sustained personal injuries while working in her employment, the cause being that a fellow employee snatched the chair in which she was seated, whereby she dropped to and forcibly upon the floor.

An “open-end” agreement, that is, an agreement between Miss Healey and her employer, concerning the paying of compensation from a given time for an indefinite period, was approved by the Labor Commissioner, and in consequence became of the same effect as the judgment of a court. R. S., Chap. 50, Sec.…