Ramer's Feed Inc. v. Fleig

The employer/carrier appeals an order finding that the claimant mother was a dependent of her son, who lived apart from his widowed mother and died in a compen-sable accident. There was evidence that the deceased son regularly contributed $107.00 per month to claimant and that two other children of the claimant contributed a like sum. These contributions, along with social security of approximately $200.00 per month, constituted claimant’s only income. There was also evidence that claimant, who is sixty-nine years old, suffers from a variety of illnesses and has been unable to work for a…