White v. Mercer County Poor Directors

Opinion by

Trexler, P. J.,

T. C. White was fatally injured on November 19, 1932. He had been selected by the directors as superintendent of the Mercer County Home for a term of four (4) years at a salary of $2,100 a year. He left to survive him a widow who is claiming compensation. She was at the time of her husband’s death employed as matron at the same institution and was receiving $1,500 a year salary. Both her husband and she received maintenance at the home. . They lived together in a house near the county home reporting to the institution each morning and returning to their home each…