Havre De Grace Fireworks Co. v. Howe

On January 16, 1953, Jack Charles Howe, an employee of Havre de Grace Fireworks Company, Inc., was injured in an explosion in the course of his employment and he died four days later as a result of his injuries. Claims were filed with the State Industrial Accident Commission by his widow, Minnie P. Howe, who was his second wife, and by three infant children by his first wife.

It was shown at the hearing before the Commission that the employee’s first wife died in 1944, and shortly afterwards the children were placed in the General German Orphan Home in Catonsville. He married again in 1948.…