Washburn v. American Roofing Co.

This case involves what plaintiff frankly concedes to be an inequitable windfall arising from the manner in which the Workmen’s Compensation Act1 deals with the termination of dependency augmentation of benefits for disabled employees. The facts do, at least, present an anomalous situation in that such benefits, when attributable to dependent stepchildren, *192may continue long after the dependents have ceased to be such in fact, but would, had they been attributable to the employee’s own children, terminate on their reaching independence as statutorily defined.

On defendant’s challenge to the…