BOSTON RETIREMENT BD. v. CONTRIBUTORY RET. APPEAL BD.


340 Mass. 109 (1959)

162 N.E.2d 821

BOSTON RETIREMENT BOARD vs. CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT APPEAL BOARD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Kerr, for the petitioner.

Roy F. Teixeira, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

No argument nor brief for the intervener.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

Catherine M. Palmeri (a member of the State-Boston retirement system1 and hereinafter called the applicant) was employed as an operating room nurse at the city of Boston's sanatorium at Mattapan. On December 14, 1954, while descending a flight of stairs in the sanatorium, she tripped and was injured. The accident occurred while she was on her way home to lunch. Claiming to have been incapacitated for further duty as a result...

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