Court Opinion

ID: 5318348
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 04:20:49.059986+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:29:17.910479
License: Public Domain

Award unanimously affirmed, with costs to the claimant against the employer and the insurance carrier, on the ground that a stepchild, actually dependent on a stepfather, is a dependent, even though the father is still living but divorced from the mother of the child. (Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 2, subd. 11; Yeople v. Bose Co., 182 App. Div. 438; affd., 223 N. Y. 687; Matter of Bogold v. Bogold Bros., 218 App. Div. 676; affd., 245 N. Y. 574.)