Purity Baking Co. v. Industrial Commission

This is a writ of error to review the order of the circuit court of Macon county confirming an award of the Industrial Commission under paragraph (a) of section 7 of the Workmen’s Compensation act made to a fifteen-year-old girl on account of the death of her mother, resulting from accidential injuries received while employed by the petitioner. This section fixes the “amount of compensation which shall be paid for an injury to the employee resulting in death” where “the employee leaves any widow, child or children whom he was under legal obligations to support.” (Cahill’s Stat. 1927, p.…