Leech v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.

An employer appeals a compensation award which treated the workman’s 28-year-old invalid child as if she were a child under 18 years of age for the purposes of computing a widow’s compensation.

There is no dispute about the facts. The deceased was fatally injured in an industrial accident. He left as survivors a widow and a totally dependent invalid daughter 28 years of age. Under ORS 656.204, compensation was awarded the widow at the rate of $110 per month. No allowance was made for the dependent child, because the child was more than 18 years of age. The widow has contested the award through…