Cox's Guardian v. Garmeada Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

— Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court reversing an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding the infant claimant maximum compensation as a total dependent of her father, Roma Cox, who was accidentally killed while in appellee’s employ. No question other than whether the claimant was totally dependent upon her father was involved or decided. (Since claimant was eighteen years of age at the time of her father’s death, and neither incapacitated from wage earning nor a member of his household, the company insists that she…