Mayfield v. Kerr

Opinion by

Baldbige, J.,

These appeals by an employer . and an insurance carrier from a judgment confirming compensation award raise the single question, whether the deceased stood in loco parentis to the claimant’s children under Section 307 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 26, 1919, P. L. 642.

The claimant filed a petition for her six children to recover compensation for the death of Rudolph Banks, an uncle of the children, on whom, it is averred, they were dependent within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Several years prior to the decedent’s death, the claimant and her…