Mancini v. Rhode Island National Guard

These two original petitions for dependency benefits provided for by G. L. 1956 (1968 Reenactment) §28-33-12, involve substantially identical facts. In each case the trial commissioner found for the petitioners. On appeal the full commission, one commissioner dissenting, reversed. Each case is here on the petitioners’ appeal.

The facts are not in dispute. While we discuss only the Mancini case, what we say with respect to it applies equally to the Reis case. On September 25, 1963 petitioners’ son, Ralph R. Mancini, Jr., voluntarily enlisted “* * * in the (Army) National Guard of Rhode Island…