Utah Fuel Co. v. Industrial Commission

This is a proceeding to review an award made by the Industrial Commission in favor of John Willis, a boy ten years of age. The facts are not in dispute. Ed. Willis was killed in an accident on March 8, 1924, while employed by the Utah Fuel Company. Dependency in fact is not controverted.

Cora Willis, the mother of the infant, and the deceased had been living together ostensibly as husband and wife for more than six years prior to the date of the accident. They were not married. During all of the time it is with-, out question that the mother had a husband living from whom she had not been…