Cross v. Crabtree

HUNTER, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County at Kansas City affirming the award of the Industrial Commission of Missouri in favor of claimant-respondent, Mary P. Cross, allowing the maximum death benefits and burial expenses totaling $15,500 under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, of which sum only $2,771.43 had accrued at the time the present appeal was taken on June 18, 1962.

*63Since the amount in actual dispute for jurisdictional purposes is determined at the time an appeal is taken, this court has jurisdiction of the appeal. Snowbarger v. M.…