State ex rel. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. v. Dickerson

The sole question presented is whether the law in effect on the elate of an employee’s injury or that in effect on the date of his death governs the amount of death benefits which his dependent widow is entitled to receive under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

In the instant case, the decedent’s last injurious exposure to silicon dioxide was on October 26, 1948. Such exposure and previous exposures caused his death on May 2, 1952.

Relator claims that the death-award schedule in effect on the date of the injury governs the award to the widow for the reason that the right to compensation as to…