DeMeritt's Case

Appeal from the decree of a single justice rendered in accordance with the decision of the Associate Legal Member of the Industrial Accident Commission granting compensation to the *300daughter, as sole dependent, of the deceased dependent widow of Ernest L. DeMeritt.

DeMeritt, while working as a foreman in the employ of the State Highway Commission, was killed on October 29, 1925. An agreement was made with his widow as a dependent for the payment of weekly compensation of $15.38 under Sec. 12 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act. (Public Laws, 1919, Chap. 238, as amended by Public Laws, 1921, Chap.…