219 Mass. 498 | Mass. | 1914
"If death results from the injury, the association shall pay the dependents of the employee, wholly dependent upon his earnings for support at the time of the injury, a weekly payment equal to one half his average weekly wages, but not more than ten dollars nor less than four dollars a week, for a period of three hundred weeks from the date of the injury.” St. 1911, c. 751, Part'll, § 6. It was a question.of fact whether the mother and sister of the deceased employee to whose support he had contributed were wholly dependent upon him within the provisions of the statute. Bartley v. Boston & Northern Street Railway, 198 Mass. 163. Potts v. Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co., Limited, [1913] A. C. 531, 538.
The evidence shows that they are residents of Italy, and, hav
It being plain on the facts that during his life the mother and sister had no other source of income except his earnings, they rightly were found to have been wholly dependent upon the employee, and the rulings requested could not be given. Pryce v. Penrikyber Navigation Colliery Co., Limited, [1902] 1 K. B. 221.
Decree affirmed.