Illegitimates' Workmen's Compensation Benefits

KANE, Attorney General,

There is currently pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania a case which challenges the constitutionality of section 307 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, art. Ill, as amended, 77 P.S. §562, which provides:. . compensation shall be payable under this section to or on account of any child, brother or sister, only if and while such child, brother or sister, is under the age of sixteen. ... If members of decedent’s household at the time of his death, the terms ‘child’ and ‘children’ shall include…