Edwards v. Butte & Superior Mining Co.

Under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Rev. Codes 1921, secs. 2816-3033), on November 19, 1927, the district court of Silver Bow county, by its judgment, awarded the claimant, Rose Edwards, $7 per week for a period of 400 weeks, because of major dependency upon her son Kenneth Edwards, eighteen years of age, who was on June 30, 1926, accidentally killed during the course of his employment by the defendant company in the “Black Rock mine,” at Butte. The case was brought before the district court on appeal by the claimant from the board’s decision, rendered April 22, 1927, awarding her as such…