Kangas's Case

The claimant, on June 20, 1925, received an injury from overexertion in turning an overhead wheel, which, because of her tubercular condition, produced immediately a hemorrhage from the lungs. See Langford’s Case, 278 Mass. 461, 463. The Industrial Accident Board awarded compensation, but the Superior Court dismissed the claim on the ground that no written notice of the injury was given “to the insurer or insured as soon as practicable after the happening thereof” (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 152, §§41, 44), and there was no affirmative evidence to warrant a finding “that the insurer, insured or…