Court Opinion

ID: 9589884
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:49:50.853623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:15.324153
License: Public Domain

Pannell, Judge,
concurring specially. I do not concur with all that is said in the opinion but I do concur in the ruling that compensation payable under Code Ann. § 114-413 because of death of the employee and which is payable to a child under the age of 18 years presumed totally dependent under Code § 114-414 ceases when dependency as defined in this section terminates, that is, when the child reaches the age of 18 years and is not physcially or mentally incapacitated from earning a livelihood. The last sentence in Code Ann. § 114-413 makes this clear and explicit when it provides: "The compensation provided for in this section shall be payable only to dependents and only during dependency.” The phrase "only during dependency” can refer to nothing else than the personal dependency of a wife and child as defined in Code § 114-414 as "[i]n all other cases, questions of dependency . . . shall be determined in accordance with the facts at the time of the accident.”