Atkinson v. Atkinson

An employee received an injury by accident on May 18, 1931, at which time he had an eight-year-old daughter. \ He died from the injury on March 5, 1932. He had been paid compensation under the workmen’s compensation act from May 25, 1931, until August 3, 1931, when he returned to his work. Compensation was resumed on January 29, 1932, and continued until February 26, 1932. On September 20, 1931, four months and two days after the accident, and after he had resumed his work, he remarried. Upon the conflicting claims of the daughter, through her guardian, and the wife, based upon opposite…