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THERESA D. BERMAN'S CASE.

Workmen's Compensation Act.

In a claim under the workmen's compensation act, where the Industrial Accident Board found on the evidence before them that certain physical ailments for which a woman employee sought compensation had no causal connection with a fall from a swivel chair in which she was sitting in the course of her employment, it was held that the decision of the board was purely upon a question of fact and therefore could not be reversed. Following McCarthy's Case, 231 Mass. 259.

BY THE COURT.

The crucial question on this record was whether certain physical ailments of the employee had any causal connection with a fall from a swivel chair in which she was sitting in the course of her employment by a subscriber under the workmen's compensation act. The single member and the Industrial Accident Board found that there was no causal connection. That was a pure question of fact. Its decision was wholly for the board, whose conclusion under these circumstances cannot be reversed. Pigeon's Case, 216 Mass. 51. McCarthy's Case, 231 Mass. 259.

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BERMAN'S CASE
(Mar 8, 1919)