Morrill v. Charles Bianchi & Sons, Inc.

Hiram Morrill, while operating a carborundum saw for defendant, fell off the platform of the machine and injured his left hip, and, it was claimed, his left side and chest, and died of acute pulmonary tuberculosis seven weeks later. This proceeding is brought by his widow under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, on behalf of herself and two alleged dependent children, James and Mary, to recover compensation. The commissioner of industries found that the children were not dependents, but that the widow was, and awarded her compensation to the time of Morrill’s death. She appealed to Washington…