Green v. Burch

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided February 24, 1948

Supreme Court of Kansas · decided 1948-02-24

Relies on Routh v. List & Weatherly Construction Co.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1948-02-24

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 76 Wis. 2d 595 - Larson v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations (1977), Bell v. Brown (In Re Payne) (1983)

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Wedell, J.

¶1(concurring specially): The workmen’s compensation *359act, as we have repeatedly said, is a law unto itself. I, therefore, limit my views accordingly. This case presents the problem of interpreting a part of a statute quoted in the majority opinion. (G. S. 1935, 44-508.)

¶2In my opinion the question is not free from difficulty. I resolve my doubts on the subject in favor of compensation for the child solely on the broad general ground the compensation act was intended to provide compensation for dependents of an injured workman. A legitimate child, unborn at the time of its father’s injury, is a dependent. (Routh v. List & Weatherly Construction Co., 124 Kan. 222, 257 Pac. 721, 62 A. L. R. 150.) An illegitimate child, so born, is no less dependent upon its father for support.