MURPHY'S CASE


352 Mass. 233 (1967)

224 N.E.2d 462

LYNN MURPHY'S CASE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 10, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel A. Canning for the insurer.

Warren H. Pyle for the claimant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

1. We cannot rule that there was no evidence to connect the claimant's peritonitis, following a double operation for hernia and appendicitis, with the employment connected hernia. Two physicians gave opinions adequate to support the single member's finding. We may not weigh the testimony of the surgeon, called by the insurer, tending to show that the appendicitis arose from usual causes of infection of the...

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