198 A.D. 453 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1921
The claimant is a minor who filed his claim three years after the accident. It is provided in section 28 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law as follows: “The right to claim compensation under this chapter shall be forever barred unless within one year after the accident, or if death results therefrom, within one year after such death, a claim for compensation thereunder shall be filed with the Commission.” There is no provision of the Compensation Law excepting the claim of an infant from the effect of this limitation other than that which is contained in section 116 of the law. That section reads: “ No limitation of time provided in this chapter shall run as against any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor dependent so long as he has no committee, guardian or next friend.” The word “ dependent ” as used in the Compensation Law has a definite and unequivocal meaning. He is a person dependent for support upon a deceased relative on account of whose death in the course of his employment a recovery of death benefits is sought to be made from the employer. (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 16.) A “ minor dependent ” is a brother, sister or grandchild, under the age of eighteen years, of a deceased person thus killed, upon whose support he or she was dependent. (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 16, subd. 4.) This claimant is not seeking recovery of death
The award should be reversed and the claim dismissed.
John M. Kellogg, P. J., Cochrane, Kiley and Van Kirk, JJ., concur.
Award reversed and claim dismissed.