Claim of Burnette v. Schreve

This is an appeal by the claimant from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed February 14, 1969, which denied death benefits upon the ground of no dependency.

The decedent, William Burnette, was a 14-year-old boy who died as the result of an accident which occurred in the course of his employment with Schreve’s Poultry Farm. The fact of a compensable accident was not disputed, but the board found that the claimant had not established any dependency by the decedent’s parents or eight minor brothers and sisters.

The board recites the testimony that the decedent turned over whatever…