Crutcher Ex Rel. Crutcher v. Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Co.

This is a claim for compensation brought before the Missouri Workmen’s Compensation Commission in behalf of the minor daughter of Sidney S. Crutcher, an employee of the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company, who was killed as the result of an airplane accident near the employer’s assembly plant in St. Louis County, Missouri, on June 21, 1929.

Upon the claim and answer filed and evidence adduced the commission awarded death benefits to claimant in the sum of $20 per week for 378.2 weeks, and burial expenses in the sum of $150. The employer and insurer appealed from this award on two…