NICHOLSON v. EDWARDS WOOD PRODUCTS

No. COA05-629.

625 S.E.2d 562 (2006)

Carrie Allen NICHOLSON, Widow of Kennedy F. Nicholson, Deceased Employee, and Quantilla Nicole Nicholson, Adult Child, and Kenya Lorraine Nicholson, Adult Child, and Keith Tyrone Allred, Alleged Dependent Minor Child, Plaintiffs, v. EDWARDS WOOD PRODUCTS, Employer, and Forestry Mutual Ins. Co., Carrier, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 7, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No brief filed for plaintiffs-appellees.

Lewis & Roberts, P.L.L.C., by Jeffrey A. Misenheimer and Sarah E. Cone, Raleigh, for defendants-appellants.


CALABRIA, Judge.

Edwards Wood Products ("defendant-employer") and Forestry Mutual Insurance Co. ("defendant-carrier") appeal from an Opinion and Award of the Industrial Commission, concluding that although Keith Tyrone Allred ("Allred") was not technically a "child" of Kennedy Nicholson ("the decedent") within the meaning of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 97-2(12) (2005), he was a "dependent child" within the meaning of N.C. Gen...

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