Liberty Mutual Insurance

This is a petition by the insurer in a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act for leave to claim an appeal late from a decree entered in the Superior Court. The allegations of the petition are that a hearing was held on December 14, 1936; that a decree was entered on December 22, 1936, in the Superior Court ordering the present petitioner, as the insurer, to pay compensation to the employee under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act; that neither the insurer nor its counsel ever *76received notice of the entry of such decree; that diligent search of the records and files of…