Tidey v. Riverside Foundry & Galvanizing Co.

This dispute involves ■ the question of the right of the wife of defendant’s employee, Chester O. Tidey, who suffered two distinct but concurrent disabilities in the course of his employment, and subsequently died, to collect the maximum death benefit under the workmen’s compensation law.

Chester Tidey, plaintiff’s deceased husband, worked as a molder in defendant’s foundry from 1942 until December 19, 1948. On December 14, 1948, he sustained a hack injury determined by a workmen’s compensation hearing referee to have resulted in total and permanent disability for which *45he was initially…