Beauchamp v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

McCOY, J. pro tem. *

This is a timely petition for review of a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board which denied death benefits to the minor sons of a school teacher who committed suicide about three weeks after his petition for reconsideration of an award which he considered inadequate was denied.

The decedent was employed as a school teacher by the Inglewood School District when he fell and sustained industrial injury to his back on January 23, 1963. On July 29, 1963, pursuant to a stipulation of the parties, an award issued for temporary disability benefits and medical…