Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1949

Flaherty's Case

Flaherty's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided April 5, 1949
324 Mass. 755; 85 N.E.2d 331; 1949 Mass. LEXIS 652

Flaherty's Case

Opinion of the Court

Decree affirmed. This is an appeal by the husband of the insured employer from a decree of the Superior Court dismissing a claim for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, as amended. It is settled by Humphrey’s Case, 227 Mass. 166, that under the act the relationship of employee and employer cannot exist between husband and wife. Here, as in Humphrey’s Case, the record is devoid of evidence upon which to base an estoppel.

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