Lippard v. Southeastern Express Co.

The questions of law presented by this appeal are (1) whether an illegitimate child born after the death of its father, who before his death had acknowledged his paternity of the child, is a dependent of its deceased father, within the provisions of the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act, and (2) if so, whether such child is entitled to share with children of its deceased father who were born of his marriage to their mother, from whom their father had been divorced prior to his death, in the compensation awarded under the act to his dependents.

Both of these questions must be answered…