Beard v. Rickert Rice Mills, Inc.

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

This is a suit under the Compensation Law. Bazile Beard was asphyxiated by hydrocyanic acid gas while working for the Rickert Rice Mills, Inc. James Willie Gould, a minor two years of age, brought this suit through his dative tutrix, Emma Beard, against Beard’s employer and the Maryland Casualty Company, its insurance carrier, alleging that he was a dependent member of the family of the late Bazile Beard, and, as such, entitled to compensation at the rate of 32½ per cent, of $12 per week, or $3.90 per week for a period of 300 weeks, or a total of $1,170.

The defendants filed…