Case Name: RAMER'S FEED INC., and Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co., Appellants, v. Benjamin Howard FLEIG, Deceased, Helen LaVicka, Mother & Dependent, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-05-12
Citations: 414 So. 2d 17
Docket Number: No. AF-331
Parties: RAMER’S FEED INC., and Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co., Appellants, v. Benjamin Howard FLEIG, Deceased, Helen LaVicka, Mother & Dependent, Appellee.
Judges: LARRY G. SMITH and SHAW, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 414
Pages: 17–18

Head Matter:
RAMER’S FEED INC., and Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co., Appellants, v. Benjamin Howard FLEIG, Deceased, Helen LaVicka, Mother & Dependent, Appellee.
No. AF-331.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
May 12, 1982.
Rehearing Denied June 7, 1982.
Bernard F. Grail, Jr., of Grail, Saliba & McDonough, Vero Beach, for appellants.
Thomas Cassidy of Stanley, Wines & Smith, P. A., Lakeland, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The employer/carrier appeals an order finding that the claimant mother was a dependent of her son, who lived apart from his widowed mother and died in a compen-sable accident. There was evidence that the deceased son regularly contributed $107.00 per month to claimant and that two other children of the claimant contributed a like sum. These contributions, along with social security of approximately $200.00 per month, constituted claimant's only income. There was also evidence that claimant, who is sixty-nine years old, suffers from a variety of illnesses and has been unable to work for a number of years. Applying the criteria of Panama City Stevedoring Co., Inc. v. Padgett, 149 Fla. 687, 6 So.2d 822 (1942) and MacDon Lumber Co. v. Stevenson, 117 So.2d 487 (Fla.1960), we see no error in the deputy's finding of dependency.
AFFIRMED.
LARRY G. SMITH and SHAW, JJ., concur.
MILLS, J., dissents with opinion.