OBERLANDER'S CASE


348 Mass. 1 (1964)

200 N.E.2d 268

PHILIP J. OBERLANDER'S (dependent's) CASE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avram G. Hammer (Richard C. Sheppard with him) for the claimant.

Thomas A. L'Esperance, Jr., for the insurer.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & REARDON, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

On January 31, 1954, Philip J. Oberlander (employee) committed suicide. His widow (claimant) brings this claim for compensation alleging that her husband's suicide resulted from a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment.

We summarize the pertinent evidence. The employee at the time of his death was sixty-three years old. For twenty-one years prior to his death he had been employed...

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