Emack's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen’s' compensation act from a decision.of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Mabel B. Emack, the dependent widow of Albert M. Emack, against the Contractors Mutual Liability Insurance Company, the insurer of the Aberthaw . Construction Company, in whose employ the deceased employee was alleged to have been at the time of his injury on March 17, 1918, as described in the opinion, and dismissing the claim of the…
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Appeal to the Superior Court under the workmen’s' compensation act from a decision.of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to Mabel B. Emack, the dependent widow of Albert M. Emack, against the Contractors Mutual Liability Insurance Company, the insurer of the Aberthaw . Construction Company, in whose employ the deceased employee was alleged to have been at the time of his injury on March 17, 1918, as described in the opinion, and dismissing the claim of the dependent widow against the Travelers Insurance Company, the insurer of the Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins Corporation. The…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
Albert M. Emack, employed by the Aberthaw Construction Company as the engineer in charge of a locomotive crane, received a fatal injury. The Holbrook, Cabot and Rollins Corporation, a subcontractor, on March 13, 1918, wrote to the Aberthaw company stating that it required a locomotive crane to act “as auxiliary to our derricks, also to provide motive power for getting piles from the pile yard out to the wharf. We understood from Mr. Garrod that the crane would be forthcoming and could be held absolutely at our disposal for the continuance of our work.” On the following day the supervisor of…
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