Milwaukee Basket Co. v. Wiecki
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county. E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. One John Wiecki received an injury resulting in his death while in the emplo)^ of the Milwaukee Basket Company. Plis parents, Francisca and August Wiecki, made application for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county. E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. One John Wiecki received an injury resulting in his death while in the emplo)^ of the Milwaukee Basket Company. Plis parents, Francisca and August Wiecki, made application for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act. Deceased was nineteen years of age and unmarried at the time of the accident, January 15, 1919. The Commission found that the deceased and five other children had been living as members of the family during the year preceding the accident. The two youngest, aged thirteen and six,…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The amount contributed by the deceased minor son John to his family with whom he lived *394during the year preceding his death, even without having deducted therefrom the amount that was necessary for the actual cost of his support, was less than the $900 taken out of the family earnings and paid therefrom on the purchase of the home.
Sub. (4) (c), sec. 2394 — 9, Stats., being the section upon which the findings of the Commission rest, reads, so far as here material, as follows:
“(c) In case the deceased employee leaves no one wholly dependent upon him, for support, but one or more persons…
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