Burrows v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county, confirming an award to the mother of an eighteen-year-old employee of the Rhinelander Paper Company who died as the result of an injury sustained in course of employment. The award was of $1,200 for partial dependency. The claim was for an award to a parent wholly dependent.' The appeal is from the judgment because it denies compensation to the applicant as one wholly dependent. Sec. 102.48, Stats., fixes the award to an unestranged surviving parent, as is the instant applicant, in case of an accident proximately causing…