Beauchamp

This is a timely petition for review of a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board which denied death benefits to the minor sons of a school teacher who committed suicide about three weeks after his petition for reconsideration of an award which he considered inadequate was denied.

The decedent was employed as a school teacher by the Inglewood School District when he fell and sustained industrial injury to his back on January 23, 1963. On July 29, 1963, pursuant to a stipulation of the parties, an award issued for temporary disability benefits and medical treatment. On March 8, 1966, supplemental findings and award issued awarding temporary disability through September 1, 1964, and permanent disability rated at 14% percent, and denying further medical treatment. Reconsideration was denied on April 22, 1966. The suicide by an overdose of barbiturates followed on May 16,1966.

On June 27, 1966, a claim on behalf of the two minor sons of the applicant was filed by their mother as guardian; a petition to reopen the decedent’s ease was also filed. On March 21, 1967, the petition to reopen was denied and an award issued limited to an order that all benefits accrued and…