Claim of Busch v. Austin Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed August 10, 1970, awarding claimant continuing death benefits commencing September 21, 1940. Claimant’s father was killed as a result of an industrial accident on June 28, 1924. An award for death benefits was made to decedent’s wife and their children, including claimant, who has been totally disabled since birth. At the time of decedent’s death, subdivision 2 of section 16 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law provided for death benefits to children of a deceased employee until their eighteenth birthday. Payments *649to claimant…