Williams v. Cypress Creek Drainage

Melvin Mayfield, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission denying dependency benefits.

James Williams began working for Cypress Creek Drainage on June 13, 1980, and worked until he died in an accident on the job on August 6, 1980. At the time of his death, the decedent was 20 years old, unmarried, and left no surviving children. Annie Mae Williams, his mother, filed a workers’ compensation claim for dependency benefits under Ark. Stat. Ann. § 81-1315 (Repl. 1976).

The administrative law judge held that appellant failed to prove that she was partially…