State Ex Rel. Garnes v. Hanley

Browning, Judge:

Petitioner, Laura A. Garnes, filed her original petition in this Court seeking a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent, Cletus B. Hanley, Workmen^ Compensation Commissioner, to continue the payment of workmen’s compensation benefits to her, as widow, and to her infant child, as a dependent of Richard Garnes, pursuant to the commissioner’s order of July 22, 1959.

The petition alleges that: she is the widow of Richard Garnes who “died while performing his employment” on June 25, 1959; she filed a claim for widow’s benefits on July 15, 1959; the commissioner, by order of July…