Claim of Sigalove v. Penzel

Dependency is the only question presented on this appeal. Prior to his death the deceased was earning about sixty dollars per week. He was paying to his mother twenty-five dollars per week. He was living with his father and mother and beside them and himself there was in the family another son, Nathan. The father was earning two thousand four hundred dollars a year. Of this sum he paid to his wife for the household expenses thirty-five dollars per week, or one ‘hundred and forty dollars a month, leaving sixty dollars a month for his own use. The family were paying eighty-five dollars a month…