Hewett Ex Rel. Wilson v. Garrett

The Industrial Commission found upon plenary and uncontra-dicted evidence that Barbara Ruth Hewett is the illegitimate child of the deceased employee, Carl Hayes Hewett. All the evidence disclosed that the father and mother, Barbara Wilson, although unmar ried, lived together in North Carolina prior to and at the time of their daughter’s birth on June 8, 1957. The birth certificate, filed at Brevard, gives to the daughter the Hewett name and lists Carl Hayes Hewett as her father. The evidence further disclosed, and the Commission found, that the mother and the child left North Carolina and…