McFarland v. Central Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

Jessie McFarland, the mother of the deceased employe, petitioned the Common Pleas to compute the compensation to be paid by the prosecutor under the twelfth section of the Workmen’s Compensation act. Pamph. L. 1911, p. 134.

The court found that the deceased, who was a single man, had died intestate leaving neither father, brothers nor sisters; that the mother of the petitioner who survived him was dependent on him and that compensation should be computed on the basis of fifty per centum of the decedent’s wagesi

It is contended that the…