Piper v. Neighborhood Youth Corps.

(on reassignment).

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. The deceased, Rick Gordon Randolph, lived with his natural mother, Mildred Piper, the claimant, and Rex Piper, his stepfather. The deceased was hired by the Neighborhood Youth Corps on a summer job in 1972. At lunch time on the first day of his job at Angostora Dam, the decedent went to rest on a raft which lay partly on the shore. The raft floated away from the shore, Rick jumped into the water and drowned.

The Director of Department of Manpower Affairs (Director) found that the accident was within the scope of the decedent’s employment…