Simmons v. B & E LANDSCAPING CO.

This case involves the question as to whether infant children of a deceased employee were wholly dependent upon him at the time of his death within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Code (1964 Repl. Vol.) Art. 101, § 36 (8) (c) and (d). The Workmen’s Compensation Commission held them to be “wholly dependent”. Judge Bowen, sitting in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County without a jury, reversed the action of the Commission. We shall sustain the action of Judge Bowen.

Louis Simmons, an employee of appellee B & E Landscaping Co., sustained an accidental personal injury…