Legg's Case

The insurer appeals from a final decree of the Superior Court which upheld the decision of the reviewing board of the Industrial Accident Board that the employee’s wife, Alice M. Legg, was conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent on the employee under § 35A (a) of the Massachusetts Workmen’s Compensation Act, G. L. c. 152. There was no error.

The employee, who is receiving compensation for total disability under § 34 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, was married on January 20, 1927, to Alice Legg and they subsequently lived together as husband and wife. For the *616past nineteen years, Mrs.…