Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1963

Landry's Case

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided May 2, 1963

346 Mass. 762; 190 N.E.2d 208; 1963 Mass. LEXIS 749

Cases that cite this one

8 later published cases cite this decision.

Grant v. Brownfield's Orthopedic & Prosthetic Co. (Idaho 1983)
Sica v. Retail Credit Co. (Md. 1967)
Anderson v. Custom Caterers, Inc. (Ala. 1966)
Kemp's Case (Mass. 1982)
Kemp's Case (Mass. App. Ct. 1981)
Kohlmayer v. Keller (Ohio 1970)
Gallart Mendía v. Industrial Commission (Supreme Court of Puerto Rico 1968)
Gallart Mendía v. Comisión Industrial (Supreme Court of Puerto Rico 1963)

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Opinion of the Court

Decree reversed. The board adopted the findings of the single member that the claimant’s injury, sustained while dancing at a Christmas party given by her employer at the hotel where she worked as a waitress, and at which attendance was op*763tional, did not arise out of and in the course of her employment. The decision dismissing the claim was affirmed. The question being one of fact and the findings being supported by evidence and free from legal error, the judge’s entry of a decree awarding compensation was wrong. In all its essentials the ease is governed by Moore’s Case, 330 Mass. 1.

Philander S. Ratzkoff for the insurer. Alphonse S. Bachorowski (David Dretler with him) for the claimant.

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