Spartichino v. Commissioner of Metropolitan District Commission

Under G. L. c. 92, § 63B, as inserted by St. 1948, c. 653, a Metropolitan District police officer may receive pay lost “by reason of absence from duty . . . because of temporary incapacity caused by injury suffered through no fault of his own while in the actual performance of duty.” See discussion of the statute in Montague v. Commissioner of the Metropolitan Dist. Commn., 9 Mass. App. Ct. 62 (1980). A judge in the Superior Court found that Spartichino, a Metropolitan District police officer, by reason of events which occurred in the line of duty and culminated on June 4, 1985, became…