Piccinim v. Connecticut Light & Power Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the defendant from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the first district in favor of the plaintiff children but not in favor of the decedent’s unlawful consort, taken to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Case, J., upon the facts found by the Commissioner, for the advice of this court. Peter Salmon Salvatore Piedmonte, an employee of the defendant, was instantly killed while he was engaged in his work.
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Appeal by the defendant from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the first district in favor of the plaintiff children but not in favor of the decedent’s unlawful consort, taken to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Case, J., upon the facts found by the Commissioner, for the advice of this court. Peter Salmon Salvatore Piedmonte, an employee of the defendant, was instantly killed while he was engaged in his work. His average weekly earnings were $25.84. In 1909 the deceased and Clotilde Piccinim, one of the claimants, under an agreement to marry, never…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The Compensation Commissioner’s award to the three children bom of the illicit relations long existing between the deceased and Clotilde Piecinim, was made to .them as dependents, and the only dependents, of the deceased at the time of his injury and resulting death, and as persons whose dependency was total. It is not contended by any of the parties that the Commissioner erred in withholding compensation from the deceased’s unlawful consort, and the defendant does not dispute that the finding of facts establishes that if the three children were the deceased’s “.dependents” within the meaning…
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