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McCarthy's Case

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 28, 1943PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.

This is an appeal from a final decree, entered in the Superior Court, denying a claim for double compensation on account of the death of the employee, an experienced and capable lineman. The employee, while working at eight o’clock on a pleasant morning in September, 1941, *611upon a pole about thirty-five feet high, which had two cross arms and supported numerous wires, cables, insulators, switches and disconnecting points called potheads, some of which carried electrical current of forty-six hundred volts, came in contact with one of these conductors, receiving a- burn and causing him to be…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Sponatski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
  2. Burns's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
  3. West's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
  4. Sciola's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
  5. Lopes's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Dillon's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
  2. Pierce's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
  3. Smith v. Director of the Division of Employment SecurityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
  4. Scaia's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
  5. O'Leary's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975

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