Gritta's Case

The decree awarding compensation to Frances Gritta and Andrea Gritta, minor children, and dependent members of the family of the deceased employee, at the rate of $10 a week for a period of four hundred weeks, was affirmed by this court on the insurer’s appeal. Gritta’s Case, 236 Mass. 204. While the exact date on which payments were to begin is not shown by the present record, it was conceded by the respondent, who acted as counsel for Maria Pappalardo, the claimant, mother and probate guardian of the children, that he had received from her for professional services rendered in the…