Edwards v. Standard Gin & Mfg. Co.

Sullivan Edwards, a carpenter by trade, was employed by the Standard Gin & Manufacturing Company to construct a small frame building, and while at work in the course of his employment was killed by an explosion on October 5, 1927. He had never been married and left at his death a father, a mother and two sisters. The father and the mother bring this suit for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation laws of the State, as amended by Act 85 of 1926, alleging dependency.

The defense is that the parents were not actually dependent for support in part or in whole upon their deceased son at the…