Sanders v. Fork Ridge Coal & Coke Co.

Mat Sanders, an employee of the defendant, was killed while in the course of his employment. The defendant paid into Court the amount due to the dependents of the deceased under the "Workmen’s Compensation Act and the controversy is as to the distribution of this fund. More particularly stated, the exact question presented is whether an illegitimate posthumous child of the deceased is entitled to share in the fund.

The deceased had been married three times and left three legitimate children. Some months before his death he went from Grundy County to Claiborne County and procured employment…