Pieters v. Drake-Williams-Mount Co.

This appeal presents the question as to whether or not a son, married and gainfully employed, was a dependent of his father so as to entitle the son to benefits under the workmen’s compensation act. The compensation court and the district court held for the plaintiff.

*316On July 28, 1941, the father was working at a blacksmith’s forge in the defendant’s shop. The day was hot. Some time that afternoon he quit his work, started home, became ill and died that evening as the result of heat exhaustion.

Prior to March, 1941, the father, a widower 59 years of age, lived in Iowa. He was a blacksmith by…