Conklin v. Topeka Wholesale Grocery Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This is a workmen’s compensation case, and the employer and its insurance carrier have appealed from the award.

Two basic questions are involved.

The first concerns the proper formula to be employed in the determination of the amount of death benefits due to the widow of a deceased workman where both of them were employed at the time of his death.

*460The second question concerns the proper basis to be used in the determination of the average yearly earnings of a deceased workman in connection with the computation of death benefits under the statute.