Stafford's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Certification to the Superior Court, under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board and papers in connection therewith, affirming and adopting findings and rulings of a single member of the board to whom had been referred a claim of Elizabeth A. Murphy, aunt of Joseph J. Stafford, whose life was lost while he was in the employ of E. S. Booth and Company, and dismissing the claim.
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Certification to the Superior Court, under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board and papers in connection therewith, affirming and adopting findings and rulings of a single member of the board to whom had been referred a claim of Elizabeth A. Murphy, aunt of Joseph J. Stafford, whose life was lost while he was in the employ of E. S. Booth and Company, and dismissing the claim. Material evidence and findings of the single merdber of the board are described in the opinion. In the Superior Court, by order of Wait, J., a decree was…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The employee received injuries, arising out of and in the course of his employment, which resulted in his death on December 13, 1918. He was unmarried, and the next of kin surviving him was his sister Louise. The claimant, Elizabeth A. Murphy, was his aunt. The employee and his sister had lived with her most of the time since childhood. The house in which they lived had been owned for many years by the claimant’s husband and, after his death in 1916, she owned one third interest therein and bought her stepson’s two third interest in January, 1919. It is agreed that the average weekly wage of…
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- Kelley's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Mahoney's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
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