Claim of Bamberg v. Irving's Auto Repair Shop

An employer and its carrier appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding death benefits to claimant as a partially dependent father of a deceased employee.

*248Claimant is a tenant farmer who lives in very poor circumstances on a 10-acre farm in South Carolina. He asserted that the decedent, who died from injuries arising out of an industrial accident in New York State, was his illegitimate son. Two issues are presented in the case: (1) whether the dependent parent of an acknowledged illegitimate child is a dependent parent entitled to death benefits under the…