Knox v. Washer

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. Oscar Knox, aged forty-three, was killed on June 27,1924, while in the employ of the defendant, and the only question for decision is whether his father and mother, petitioners, were being wholly supported by him at the time of his death; the insistence of the defendant being that they were partially dependent only. The trial court held that they were wholly dependent.

In September, 1923, the petitioners purchased a house and lot on Powell avenue in Memphis for $1,100 paying $500 in cash and executing monthly installment notes of $12 each for the balance.…