King v. New York, Ontario & Western Railway Co.

Van Kirk, J.:

John King, the deceased employee, was killed July 2, 1917, while in the course of his employment, leaving a widow and seven *510minor children. The weekly wages of the deceased were fourteen dollars. An agreement for compensation was entered into between the widow on behalf of herself and her children and the employer, and compensation paid until March 5, 1922. It was then learned that the widow had remarried on April 1, 1919. The period of the “ two years’ compensation in one sum ” allowed upon her remarriage expired April 1, 1921, at which date all the children were under eighteen…