Buhner v. Bowman

On December 13, 1922, one Oscar Bowman was in the employment of the appellant, Rudolph Buhner, hauling crushed stone to be placed upon a public highway. On that date, he received a personal injury by accident, arising out of and in the course of *397his employment, from which injuries he died on the same day. He left no wife or children, and the appellees — his father, aged' 93, his mother, aged 70, and a sister aged 36 — claiming to be his dependents, filed with the Industrial Board their application for an award of compensation, claiming that they were each wholly dependent upon him for…