Elihinger v. Wolf House Furnishing Co.

This is an appeal by the employer and insurer from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, affirming a final award of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, awarding death benefits to claimants as partial dependents of a deceased employee of the appellant employer.

Claimants having duly filed their claim for compensation, the employer and insurer filed an answer in which they denied that claimants were in any way dependents of the deceased- employee. The cause was heard before a referee of the Workmen’s Compensation on January 19, 1933. At the hearing it was stipulated and…