Coborn v. Industrial Accident Commission

The petitioner seeks a review and the annulment of an award based on a finding of partial dependency, on the ground that the commission exceeded its jurisdiction in failing to find total dependency.

Allen G. Coborn, the petitioner’s son, was instantly killed on July 13, 1946, while he was employed as a truck driver. The only question here is whether the facts bearing on the petitioner’s dependency as a matter of law require the commission to make a finding of total dependency. Those facts are briefly:

The decedent was born in 1908. His mother was about 61 years of age at the time of the…