Birdsong Peanut Co. v. Cowling

Opinion

BARROW, J.

This is an appeal from an Industrial Commission award for the benefit of an illegitimate child born three days after the putative father’s death. The father’s employer, arguing that a putative father’s pre-birth acknowledgement of an illegitimate child may not establish dependency under Code § 65.1-66(3), contends that the commission erred in awarding benefits for the child. The employer also contends that, since the deputy commissioner found the child’s mother unworthy of belief, the commission wrongly found that the evidence was sufficient to establish parentage and…