Dependency is the only question presented. Decedent was a seventeen-year-old boy employed as a messenger at $32 per week when he was killed in the course of his employment. He lived at home as a member of a large family, getting two meals per day and his lodging and laundry. He paid his mother $15 per week, retaining the other $17 for his own purposes. His father earned $52 per week. The crux of the board's decision is "the payment into the household made by the decedent...
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