Legal Opinion
O'Neil's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 30, 1935PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
On June 15, 1934, Eugene B. O’Neil was employed as one of a "shore crew” on and about a fishing trawler, which was tied up at the Fish Pier, so called, in Boston. He was told by his employer’s manager to take the manager’s automobile, then standing on the wharf, and to go "up town’’ to get some pitch. In some manner he allowed the automobile to run off the wharf and was drowned.
On January 15, 1934, his employer had taken out compensation insurance in the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, hereinafter called the Employers’, and on March 18 of the same year it had taken out similar…
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