Illinois Steel Co. v. Industrial Commission

The award in this case, under the workmen’s compensation act, sub. (4), sec. 102.1 Í, Stats., can only be justified if Mrs. Peterson, the claimant, not a relative by blood or marriage, was a member of the family of the deceased employee, Nelson.

While it may well be that relationship by blood or marr riage is not essential in order that a person claiming as dependent under the statutes here involved may properly be considered a member of the family of the deceased employee and therefore entitled to compensation, as is suggested in Armstrong v. Industrial Comm. 161 Wis. 530, 532, 154 N. W. 844,…