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ROEPKE v. RICE CTY. 66 OIL

No. 47696.

260 N.W.2d 464 (1977)

Beverly ROEPKE, widow of Lawrence B. Roepke, deceased employee, Respondent, v. RICE COUNTY 66 OIL et al., Relators.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 10, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cousineau, McGuire, Shaughnessy & Anderson, and Robert J. McGuire, Minneapolis, for relators.

Cook & Dokken, Stephen L. Dokken, Faribault, for respondent.

Heard before TODD, SCOTT, and WAHL, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.

SCOTT, Justice.

Certiorari appeal to review a decision of the Worker's Compensation Court of Appeals denying a request for an autopsy on the body of a deceased employee. We affirm.

Lawrence B. Roepke was an employee of relator Rice County 66 Oil. On October 4, 1976, while he was driving his employer's van in the course of the employer's business in a southerly direction on Rice County Highway No. 3, his vehicle swerved suddenly into the oncoming lane of traffic...

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