Deemer Lumber Co. v. Hamilton

Arrington, C.

Hartness Hamilton was killed while working in the course of his employment with the Deemer Lumber Company on January 30, 1950. At the time of his death he was 23 years of age, unmarried, and left surviving him his mother, father, two brothers and a sister. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hamilton, his parents, filed claims as dependents under the Mississippi Workmen’s Compensation Law. The Deemer Lumber Company and its insurance carrier, T. H. Mastín and Company, denied liability on the grounds that the parents were not dependents under the provisions of the Compensation Law and that the…