Claim of Klein v. Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, from a decision and award of the State Industrial Commission, entered in the office of said Commission on the 30th day of December, 1918.
1Opinion of the Court
H. T. Kellogg, J.:
This is an appeal from an award to the father, mother and infant sister of a deceased employee. The award to the father is disputed on the ground that he was not a dependent. The deceased earned eighteen dollars a week, reserved for spending money four or five dollars, gave his infant sister two or three dollars, and paid the balance of about twelve dollars to his mother, who bought his clothes and used the remainder for general family purposes. The father earned twelve dollars a week, which he paid to the mother, while a brother, who earned eight dollars a week, paid her…
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