Employers Liability Assurance Corp. v. Pruitt

Grice, Justice.

It is the insistence of the plaintiff in error, that the Industrial Board is without power to make a lump-sum award in a death case, where the widow is the sole dependent; that the Georgia act provides no machinery for ascertaining the payments to be commuted in favor of a widow; and that in no event should the employer and insurance carrier be required to pay a lump sum award in favor of a widow, unless some arrangement be made under which the unconsumed portion of such award would be refunded if the widow died or remarried before all instalments which could be awarded under…