South Carolina Second Injury Fund v. Lindberg Rabb & Frazier Pulpwood Co.

Lewis, Justice:

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case and the appeal involves the right of the Second Injury Fund, established under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, to receive a portion of death benefits where the deceased employee left a partial dependent.

Section 72-602 of the 1962 Code of Laws, as amended, established, as a separate State Agency, the Second Injury Fund, from which certain benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act are paid where an employee who,, having a permanent physical impairment, incurs a subsequent disability from injury by accident arising out of and in the course…