COLBY v. VARNEY

No. 4050.

97 N.H. 130 (1951)

RALPH M. COLBY & a. v. FRED VARNEY & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

July 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Sleeper and Robert Shaw and Wayne J. Mullavey (Mr. Mullavey orally), for the plaintiffs.

Eliot U. Wyman (by brief and orally), for the defendants.


DUNCAN, J.

Section 20 of chapter 266, Laws 1947 provides for the payment of benefits to the dependent or dependents of a deceased employee as previously defined in the Act in cases where death results from compensable injury. Section 2 VII, defines dependents as follows: "Dependents, shall mean the employee's . . . parents . . . who were wholly or partially dependent in fact upon the earnings of the employee for support at the time of the injury."

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