State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Mattivi

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Plaintiffs in error are hereinafter referred to as the coal company and the fund, and defendants in error as the claimant and the commission respectively, and one August Mattivi, deceased, as Mattivi.

As the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment with the coal company, Mattivi was injured December 31, 1937, and died that day. Claimant, as alleged widow by a common-law marriage of date November 7, 1937, sought compensation. The only contested point was that of relationship. The referee found for claimant, his finding was…