Case Name: FAILING EXPLORATION & DRILLING COMPANY, a corporation, and the TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, v. WALTER B. COTTON and FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1943-12-07
Citations: 153 Fla. 827
Docket Number: 
Parties: FAILING EXPLORATION & DRILLING COMPANY, a corporation, and the TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, v. WALTER B. COTTON and FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Judges: TERRELL, BROWN, THOMAS and SEBRING, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 153
Pages: 827–828

Head Matter:
FAILING EXPLORATION & DRILLING COMPANY, a corporation, and the TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, v. WALTER B. COTTON and FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
15 So. (2nd) 907
June Term, 1943
December 7, 1943
En Banc
Rehearing Denied January 4, 1944
Shackleford, Farrior & Shannon, for appellants.
L. J. Robbins, for appellee.

Opinion:
BUFORD, C. J.:
As we read the record it fails to show that claimant was dependent of the deceased within the purview of applicable statutes and the law as enunciated by this Court in the case of Panama City Stevedoring Co., Inc., v. Padgett, 149 Fla. 687, 6 Sou. (2nd) 822, and Stone & Stone, et al., v. Scott, et al., 151 Fla. 21, 9 So. (2nd) 168. Cross, et ux, v. Sumter Co. et al., 152 Fla. 864, 13 So. (2nd) 219.
For the reason stated, the judgment should be reversed.
So ordered.
TERRELL, BROWN, THOMAS and SEBRING, JJ., concur.
CHAPMAN and ADAMS, JJ., dissent.