Claim of Rice v. Wrigley

The employer and insurance carrier herein appeal from a decision of the State Industrial Board which held decedent’s minor child to be entitled to an award of fifteen per cent of decedent’s wages. The sole question involved is whether *45the award should have been computed on this basis or on a basis of ten per cent of decedent’s wages.

The deceased employee was a traveling salesman. On September 15, 1937, he received fatal injuries, arising out of and in the course of his employment, in an airplane accident near Lima, Peru. He had married in Puerto Rico in 1931, and the child of this marriage is…