Baine v. Queen Ins. Co.

This is an appeal questioning the construction given the Workmen’s Compensation Act (T.C.A. sec. 50-901, et seq.) in a Workmen’s Compensation suit wherein the death of the employee was conceded as being compensa-ble, and it was likewise conceded that his average weekly wage was $50.00 per week.

The Chancellor decreed that James Lewis Baine, Jr., was a partial dependent, he being a son of the deceased, and that this boy derived thirty (30%) per cent of his total support from the decedent, and was entitled to an award of $7.50 per week (based upon decedent’s earnings of $50.00 per week x 50 % x…