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ECKERT v. NEW JERSEY STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

1 N.J. 474 (1949)

64 A.2d 221

VIOLA M. ECKERT, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, v. NEW JERSEY STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT. MARION MEURY, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, v. NEW JERSEY STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided February 28, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel L. Shapiro argued the causes for the petitioners-respondents.

Messrs. Moore & Moore, attorneys for petitioner-respondent Marion Meury (Mr. Arthur D. McTighe on the brief).

Mr. William K. Miller, Deputy Attorney General, argued the causes for the respondents-appellants (Mr. Walter D. Van Riper, Attorney General, on the briefs).

The opinion of the court was delivered by OLIPHANT, J.

The meritorious question presented in these appeals, which were consolidated for the purpose of argument, is whether or not both pensions and workmen's compensation benefits can be paid to the dependents of public employees accidently killed in the actual performance of their duties. Identical questions of law are presented in both cases.

Walter C. Eckert and Herman J. Meury were employees of the New Jersey...

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