Claim of Markidis v. American Airlines, Inc.

Appeal by the employer and its carrier from a decision and award of death benefits to the deceased employee’s parents. Decedent, a 22-year-old airline stewardess, was killed in an airplane crash on February 3, 1959. The sole issue raised on appeal is the propriety of the board’s finding of partial dependency. Upon the testimony, letters, etc,, we find that the board was within the proper exercise of its fact-finding powers, especially in determining issues of credibility, in holding that decedent was sending home contributions of around $100 a month. A more difficult problem is posed by the…