Howard Contracting Co. v. Yeager

Markell, J.,

filed the following dissenting opinion.

The question in this case is, whether under the Workmen’s Compensation Act a childless widow who before remarriage has received all compensation ’payable up to her remarriage, and also a lump sum payment of future compensation for 102 weeks, is entitled to receive additional compensation for 52 weeks. This question depends upon construction of provisions of sections 55 and 63 of the Act (Code, 1939, Art. 101), viz.:

“55. * * * In case of the remarriage of a dependent widow of a deceased employee, without dependent children at the time of the…