Martin v. Nashville Coal Co.

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board to the effect that Janice Martin, younger sister of the decedent, James Martin, was 25% partially dependent upon him at the time of his death, at the age of twenty-one, while working in the mine of his employer, the- appellee, Nashville Coal Company. The sole issue on the appeal is the adequacy of the award by the Board whose findings in such matters is final if supported by substantial evidence. KRS 342.285.

James Martin, the deceased,, was unmarried and lived in the home of his parents at…