delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is аn appeal from an award for compensation of $6.'50 pеr week for four. hundred weeks and $100 for burial expenses. It is conceded that the husband of petitioner lost his life in the course of his employmеnt by the Company. The main insistence of the Company on this appеal is that the petitioner was voluntarily living apart from her husband. (Subsec. (1), Sec. 30 of Chap. *459 123, Acts of 1919.) The record shows that some years beforе a suit for divorce from bed and board had been brought by the wife on account of desertion and failure' to support and that in that suit she was given a decree for alimony of $35 a month. However, there is evidence that while the deceased spent most of his time at Brice-ville, working in the mines where he lost his life, and his wife resided some miles away at Petros, which had been their home in former years, that he frequently visited the home and made contributions to the support of his former wife. In fact there is evidence that in so far as the decree of divorce was сoncerned it hacl] been disregarded by the couple. We think therе is abundant material evidence in the record to support the finding, of the trial judge that the separation, in so far as it was a separаtion, was not voluntary on the part of the petitioner and that shé was еntitled to recover compensation under the statute, being dependent upon the deceased at the1 time of his death. The faсt of actual dependency was the determinative issue under our statute which the trial judge found in favor of petitioner.'
We are furnished with no authority holding that a wife is cut off from the right to compensation, upon thе death of the husband, by a decree divorcing the parties from bed and board, on the ground of desertion and failure to support by the husband, with an allowance of alimony. Her conduct has been adjudged justifiablе and her living apart under such conditions is not voluntary.
See Partee
v.
Memphis Concrete Co.,
*460 However, the record discloses that the earnings of the deceased were fixed by a stipulation on the hearing at $15 a week, and under the statute the widow mаy recover thirty per cent only of the average wages, prоvided .that this thirty per cent is as much as the minimum sum of $5. We find no basis for the award оf $6.50 a week and the judgment will be modified so as to award $5 a week for fоur hundred weeks.
The Company also questions the award of $100 for burial expenses, but we fail to find that this question was raised in the lower court on the mоtion for a new trial, and the trial court cannot be put in error with respect to a matter not brought to his attention.
Counsel for petitioner -interpose a motion in this Court to affirm for want of a complete transcript, in that copies of a bill and decree of divorce introduced as exhibits have not been included. However, as we reаd the record these exhibits are immaterial to the determination of the case, as it appears that the facts with respect to the proceeding for divorce and the' decree thereundеr were testified to without objection and appear on the face of the bill of exceptions, and the exhibits would add or detraсt nothing. This motion is therefore overruled and the judgment affirmed, with the modification here-inbefore indicated.