PHILLIPS & BUTTORFF MFG. CO. v. JORDAN


227 S.W.2d 776 (1950)

PHILLIPS & BUTTORFF MFG. CO. v. JORDAN.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 17, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred T. Adams, Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

Jack Keefe, Nashville, for defendant in error.


BURNETT, Justice.

This is a workmen's compensation case. All elements of the action are conceded except that of dependency. The trial judge found that the deceased employee left no widow or child but that his mother, the appellee, "was partially dependent for support upon said deceased son, who contributed regularly more than one-half of the total income of said mother," for her support.

"We early held that the question of the dependency of a father and mother...

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