Claim of Yeople v. John B. Rose Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John B. Rose Company and another, from so much of an award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 13th day of August, 1917, as grants compensation to the claimant as a dependent granddaughter of the deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
John M. Kellogg, P. J.:
■The mother and father of the claimant gave her to the grandparents when she was a few days old and they have maintained her for over fifteen years as their child. There was some writing made giving the child to them, the terms of which do not appear. Apparently, in a separation action between the father and mother, they gave up their rights to *439the child to the grandparents, and two dollars and fifty cents a week by the decree or settlement was allowed the wife for her support. The separation agreement made no provision for the child. The parents have lived next door to…
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