STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND v. KINDIG

No. 22875.

445 P.2d 72 (1968)

STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, Town of Julesburg, and Industrial Commission of Colorado, Plaintiffs-in-Error, v. Rose KINDIG, Widow and Dependent of Theodore Kindig, Deceased, Defendant-in-Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, In Department.

September 16, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alious Rockett, Francis L. Bury, Feay Burton Smith, Jr., Denver, for plaintiffs in error Town of Julesburg and State Compensation Ins. Fund.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Peter L. Dye, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff in error Industrial Commission of Colorado.

L. F. Butler, Denver, for defendant in error.


HODGES, Justice.

This is a workmen's compensation case in which claimant's husband sustained head injuries while at work and died of leukemia 68 days later. The Industrial Commission denied compensation for the death, and this denial was reversed by the trial court, which ordered the Commission to compensate the claimant, who is the widow of the deceased employee. From this reversal, the Commission brings this writ of error.

The claimant's husband was employed...

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