George A. Fuller Company v. Ryan

This is a petition filed under the workmen’s compensation act by certain employers, who will hereinafter be referred to as the petitioner, to have determined the amount of compensation payments and to whom they should be paid. From a decision by a justice of the superior court which was adverse to the respondents one of them duly appealed to this court.

The question raised in this proceeding is entirely one of' law. The facts involved are undisputed and are as follows: Thomas J. Ryan, Jr. was an employee of the petitioner. The respondents are his father and mother. The father-died after the…