GARNER v. HECLA MINING COMPANY

No. 10667.

19 Utah 2d 367 (1967)

431 P.2d 794

EOLA MARGARET GARNER, WIDOW, AND JAMES DOUGLAS GARNER AND PAMELA GARNER, MINOR CHILDREN OF DOUGLAS GARNER, DECEASED, PLAINTIFFS, v. HECLA MINING COMPANY AND THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF UTAH, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of Utah.

August 24, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rawlings, Wallace, Roberts & Black, Richard C. Dibblee, Salt Lake City, Chas. Traylor, Grand Junction, Colo., for plaintiffs.

Phil L. Hansen, Atty. Gen., F. Robert Bayle, Salt Lake City, for defendants.


CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Plaintiffs, the widow and children of Douglas Garner, attack the findings and order of the Industrial Commission denying benefits for his death which they contend resulted from an occupational disease caused from working as a uranium miner for the defendant Hecla Mining Company.

Mr. Garner had worked in and around uranium mines since 1940, 15 years of it underground. The last eight years had been in Utah, four years of that for the...

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