Poccardi v. State Compensation Com'r. Giovanni Cucca Claim
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from order of State Compensation Commissioner. Proceeding under Workmen’s Compensation Act by Gae-tano Poccardi, Royal Consul, etc. (Raffaele Cueca and Anna Luigia Pirisi, claimants), to obtain compensation for tbe death of their son Giovanni Cueca. Compensation was denied by the State Compensation Commissioner, and claimants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, .Judge :
Upon an appeal from the final action of the State Compensation Commissioner, denying to the claimants, Raffaele Cueca and Anna Luigia Pirisi, respectively the father and mother of Giovanni Cueca, deceased, right of participation in the Workmen’s Compensation Fund, as persons partially dependent on his contribution for their support.
Claimants • are citizens and residents of the Kingdom of Italy; their son Giovanni. Cueca, a subject of that Kingdom, was killed in a coal mine of the New River Collieries Company, at Eccles, West Virginia, in April, 1914.
The Commissioner found as a…
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