Ziegler v. Pictorial Review Co.

The award appealed from is excessive, on the ground that for two years following the remarriage of the widow of a deceased workman, the amount of her lump sum award plus the increased percentages awarded to two dependent children and the mother of the deceased constitute an aggregate award of more than sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of deceased’s average wages. James W. Kee, the deceased workman, died June 25, 1923. An award was made of thirty per cent of his average weekly wages to his widow and ten per cent to each of two children and sixteen and two-thirds per cent to his dependent…