Chuckwagon v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Dissenting Opinion by

Judge Craig:

The Workmen’s Compensation Law clearly provides that the dependency status of a decedent’s mother is founded upon the existence of dependency “at the time of the injury,”1 and that the compensation rights of such a maternal dependent cease only when she dies, or possibly, when she remarries.2

The indispensable point governing the analysis of this case is that the dependent entitled to compensation is the deceased worker’s mother, not his sister.

*220Under the Law, the compensation right devolves upon and is related to a sister only where no dependent parent exists.…