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GJERNING v. POTLATCH FORESTS, INC. (TWIN FEATHER M. U.)

No. 9778.

415 P.2d 301 (1966)

Kathleen GJERNING, Surviving Widow of Marvin Woodrow Gjerning, Claimant-Respondent, v. POTLATCH FORESTS, INC. (TWIN FEATHER MILLS UNIT) and Workmen's Compensation Exchange, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

June 10, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blake, Givens & Feeney, Lewiston, for appellants.

Swayne & McNichols, Orofino, for respondent.

McQUADE, Justice.

This appeal is from an Industrial Accident Board award of death benefits to the minor children of Marvin W. Gjerning, deceased. The Board found that Gjerning's death, as a medical probability, "was precipitated by an accidental electric shock causing cardiac arrest of a failing heart weakened by pre-existing disease." The Board attributed one-half of the deceased's death to his preexisting heart disease and one-half to the electric shock incurred...

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