Baxter ex rel. Baxter v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This was a compensation case where the point involved is the power and right of the compensation commissioner to reapportion an award. The case was here before, and the decision rendered therein is reported in 139 Kan. 443, 32 P. 2d 451.

The compensation commissioner had made an award of $4,000 for the death of the workman, and had apportioned it equally between the wholly dependent widow and the wholly dependent minor child, $2,000 each. The respondent appealed to the district court where the award and apportionment were affirmed, from…