Johnson v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Calhoun, President:

This case is before the Court upon an ‘appeal by Semet-Solvay Division, Allied Chemical Corporation, the employer, from an order of the West Virginia Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board entered on July 29, 1971, by which that body, by a two to one vote of its members, *625affirmed a prior order of the State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner by which. Katie L. Johnson, the claimant and appellee, was awarded dependency benefits as a consequence of the death of her husband, Willie Johnson, who, during his lifetime and until his retirement on November 6, 1964, had been employed…