Criss v. Taylor Produce Co.

William H. Criss, an employee of the defendant, Taylor Produce Company of Battle Creek, Michigan, on February 15, 1944, sustained a fatal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment. The employer reported the fatal injury to the department of labor and industry, paid the employee’s statutory funeral bill and designated the employee’s mother, Nellie Monroe, as a partial dependent. The designation of Mrs. Monroe as a partial dependent was in a supplemental report filed by the employer with the department on May 1, 1944. The employee was an unmarried man living in Battle Creek. His…