Kelly v. Lassen Hotel Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoch, J.:

This is an appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from an award under the workmen’s compensation act. Death resulted from the employee’s injury and the claimants are her parents, who were in part dependent upon her earnings. The only question presented is whether the amount of the award was properly computed.

The facts are not seriously in dispute. Mildred Vivian Kelly was employed as an elevator operator by the Lassen Hotel Company in Wichita. On September 23, 1945, after she had been working six weeks, she met with an accidental…