Wagner v. Lewis

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Cyrus Wagner (decedent), thirty-one years of age, lived with Anna Wagner and their infant son, the infant petitioner, Cyrus John Wagner, at Wrightstown, New Jersey. Decedent was employed by respondents, Maurice B. Lewis, individually and trading as M. B. Lewis Company and William C. Smith, as a laborer on a road construction job on the Jobstown-IJaneock’s Corner road, in Burlington county, New Jersey, at an hourly wage of forty cents and received, as was stipulated by the parties, a sum in excess of $10 each week. Decedent had always been strong, robust, of good health, and of a jovial…