Legal Opinion

Donahue's Case

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided March 26, 1935PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.

The Industrial Accident Board has found that the claimant worked as a weaver for the employer on a loom making asbestos brake lining for a period of almost seventeen years until, on February 19, 1934, he was obliged to give up work because of pneumonoconiosis which had been brought about by the inhalation of dust from the *240process used; that due to the accumulative effect of breathing in this dust, he finally reached on that date the point where he was disabled for work and that the date of his injury was the date when the accumulative effect of inhaling the dust made it necessary for him to…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. DeFilippo's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
  2. Crowley's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
  3. Anderson's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
  4. Plecity v. George McLachlan Hat Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
  5. Langford's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Colonial Insurance v. Industrial Accident CommisionCalifornia Supreme Court · 1946
  2. Evans's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
  3. Enyard v. Consolidated UnderwritersMissouri Court of Appeals · 1965
  4. Tassone's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
  5. Gustafson's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939

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