155 N.Y.S. 702 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1915
The employer and insurance carrier stand neutral upon this question. All parties simply desire an interpretation of the law, that it may be determined to whom the moneys allotted to the infant children of the deceased shall be paid. Section 16 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 67 [Laws of 1914, chap. 41], as amd. by Laws of 1914, chap. 316) provides that “If the injury causes death, the compensation shall be known as a death benefit and shall be payable in the amount and to or for the benefit of the persons following: * * *
“2. If there be a surviving wife * * * thirty per centum of the average wages of the deceased during widowhood * * *; and if there be surviving child or children of the deceased under the age of eighteen years, the additional amount of ten per centum of such wages for each such child until of the age of eighteen years.”
All concurred.
Question certified answered in the affirmative.