Ferguson v. Hood

STONE, Presiding Judge.

Claimants-appellants are the parents and siblings of eighteen-year-old Richard Ferguson who, while working in the course of his employment as a service station attendant, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at the station on March 15, 1969. Asserting that they were partial dependents of Richard (§ 287.240, RSMo 1969, V.A. M.S.), claimants instituted this proceeding under the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation Law. After a plenary hearing, the referee made extensive findings of fact and rulings of law and entered an award denying compensation to the alleged…