May v. Meade

This is certiorari to the department of labor and industry. Samuel John Merritt, applicant for compensation, is a son of Thomas J. Merritt, was ■born February 22, 1913, during wedlock and cohabitation of his father and mother. His parents were married March 15, 1909, with ceremony performed by a justice of the peace. At the time of the marriage Mrs. Merritt was about 15 years of age. In 1917, Mrs. Merritt left her husband because she learned from letters that he had a wife in England, took the boy with her, and, without annulment, contracted marriage with another man.

October 1, 1923, Thomas…