Brown v. Martin

Mr. Associate Justice Eishburne

delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court:

Morris Brown was an employee of J. Roy Martin, and met his death by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. Ele was a Negro, twenty-one years of age, whose father and mother had predeceased him. He left no widow or child, but left surviving him an unmarried sister, Callie May Brown, age twenty-three years, and an unmarried brother, E. G. Brown, age nineteen years. Neither the brother nor the sister was dependent upon the deceased.

The hearing commissioner held that Callie May Brown and E. G. Brown…