Peterson v. Thief River Falls Welding Co.

Dell, Chief Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the industrial commission determining compensation involving partial dependents under the workmen’s compensation act.

The undisputed facts are that the deceased employee, Ivan Peterson, and his brother, Loren, residents of the city of Thief Eiver Falls, Minnesota, rented a house in which they lived with their sister, June, and their father and mother, ages 79 and 77 respectively. They paid the rent which was $30 per month and shared between them the other family living expenses such as groceries, coal, fuel oil, gas, light, water, and…