Edwards v. Holmes Construction Co.

SMITH, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves the question whether minor children are entitled to payment of workmen’s compensation benefits growing out of the death of their father in covered employment, after the children were legally adopted by a married couple.

The facts are not in dispute. May 2, 1958, William E. Jones received a personal injury caused by an accident arising out of and in the course of covered employment which resulted in his death on that date. He left surviving his widow, Valeria Jones, and three minor children by former marriages, i. e., a son Robert Bruce, born December…