Claim of Sindone v. La Sala Bros.

Claimant appeals from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board disallowing her claim for death benefits upon the finding that her asserted status as the dependent surviving spouse of the deceased workman was not satisfactorily established. The right to compensation is founded on the contention that claimant and decedent contracted a valid common-law marriage during a week-end trip to Washington, D. C., in 1955. There was evidence of their mutual agreement per verba de praesenti to he husband and wife consummated by cohabitation (see United States Fid. & Guar. Co. v. Britton, 269 P. 2d…