Doherty's Case

In this • proceeding under the workmen’s compensation act, the question to be decided is the dependency of the claimant. The employee was injured while in the course of his employment and died as a result of his injuries on April 19, 1929. He was twenty-two years of age and lived with his father and mother. His brother and sister paid a part of their wages to their mother; she testified that “she considers [these payments] for their board.” The claimant, the father of the deceased, is a police officer and was paid $42 a week. There was evidence that the deceased paid his mother “about $15 a…