Steverson v. Struck Const. Co.

LATIMER, Justice.

We have before us an appeal and cross-appeal from the judgment affirming a full board award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The issue presented here is the degree of dependency.

Appellant, Della Steverson, age 35, is the daughter of Fount Barnett, deceased employee of appellees. Barnett was killed by an accident which happened within the course of his employment. Appellant, although married, had been separated from her husband for fifteen years within which time she had neither seen nor heard from him. She had been unemployed for about fourteen years prior to her father’s…