Claim of Stoehrer v. Lampert

Workmen’s Compensation Board awarded death benefits to the widowed father and four-year-old half sister of the deceased employee. On this appeal employer and its insurance carrier raise the issues that the evidence does not establish dependency and that, in any event, the infant, the acknowledged illegitimate daughter of decedent’s father, does not qualify as a dependent within the meaning of the law.

Deceased, twenty-nine years of age, was unmarried. He lived with his father, a stepsister, two sisters of the full blood, and the infant whose status is in question. His father received a weekly…