Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Place

This appeal calls in question the construction placed upon section 40 of the workmen’s compensation act *564(Laws 1918, chapter 400) by the Industrial Commission, which allowed appellee, as a dependent of one James R. Harrell, deceased, the sum of $8.00 per week for 300 weeks.

In the opinion of Deans, commissioner, the facts-found by the Commission are as follows:

“James R. Harrell had been in the employ of the defendant company for about five months prior to the-fatal accident which occurred about one-thirty p. m., on August 15, 1927. His duties were those of a mechanic, for which he received…