Claim of Groff v. Certain-teed Products Corp.

Appeal from an award of death benefits made by the W orkmen’s Compensation Board to the father, mother and seven infant brothers and sisters of a deceased employee. Decedent, who was twenty-five years of age at the time of his death, contributed the sum of $40 a week regularly towards the support and maintenance of the family, besides some other specific and isolated contributions to the mother. The father earned $60 a week. The food bill alone of the family amounted to $50 a week. No other income was available except the contributions of the decedent and the wages of the father. The issue of…