FLORILAND FARMS, INC. v. PETERMAN

No. 30967.

131 So.2d 477 (1961)

FLORILAND FARMS, INC. and Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co., Petitioners, v. Ollie L. PETERMAN, Jr., Dec'd, Employee, Ollie L. Peterman, Sr., Gracie Mae Peterman, Bobbie Jean Peterman, Ebecca Peterman, Elijah Peterman, Margaret Ree Peterman, and Margaret Peterman, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 12, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioners.

Nadler & Tunick, Burnis T. Coleman and Paul E. Speh, Tallahassee, for respondents.


PER CURIAM.

Ollie L. Peterman, Jr., while employed by Floriland Farms, Inc., petitioner, suffered a compensable death which occurred November 7, 1959, deceased being 16 years of age at the time. His employer's carrier paid burial benefits promptly, but declined to pay death benefits contending that deceased had no dependents at the time of his death.

When his death occurred, deceased was living with his father as one of the family which consisted of the father...

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