Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. v. Papuschak

The appellee’s father, while employed by the appellant, contracted an occupational disease from which he became disabled on the 4th day of January, 1941 and which caused his death on February 14, 1943. He received certain compensation during his lifetime and after he died the appellee was awarded compensation to continue during her dependency, not to exceed three hundred weeks, against which award the amounts paid to the deceased during his lifetime were to be credited.

The undisputed facts show, and the board found, that at the time of her father’s death, the appellee was thirty-one years of…