NORTHERN CORPORATION v. SAARI

No. 613.

409 P.2d 845 (1966)

NORTHERN CORPORATION, an Alaska corporation, and Home Insurance Company, a foreign Insurance corporation, Appellants, v. Eino M. SAARI, deceased, Lennea Saari, Leonard Lyle Saari, and Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

January 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Delaney, Jr., of Delaney, Wiles, Moore & Hayes, Anchorage, for appellants.

Robert E. Hammond, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and RABINOWITZ, JJ.


DIMOND, Justice.

Eino Saari, an employee of appellant Northern Corporation, died of a skull fracture after he fell off a road into a creek bed about 10 feet below the level of the road. The question for decision is whether Saari's death arose out of and in the course of his employment.1 The Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board held that it did and awarded compensation for death. On appeal, the...

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