Bradley v. Swift & Co.

William Balthazar, while working in the course of his employment for Swift Co., the defendant in these suits, was accidentally killed on April 1, 1925. A few months after the deceased was killed, his widow, Elizabeth Bradley Balthazar, and his father, Paul Balthazar (the deceased leaving no child or mother), brought the present suits to recover compensation, under the Employers' Liability Act, Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended.

The defense to the suit, instituted by the widow, is that she was not living with the deceased when he was injured and killed, nor was she actually dependent upon him for…