HORN TRANSP. v. CLAIMANTS IN MATTER OF DEATH, ETC.

No. 77-638.

576 P.2d 195 (1978)

HORN TRANSPORTATION, INC., and Commercial Standard Insurance Company, Petitioners, v. CLAIMANTS IN the MATTER OF the DEATH OF Rex A. WARDS, Englewood Transit Company, and State Compensation Insurance Fund, Director of the Division of Labor, and the Industrial Commission of Colorado, Respondents.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

February 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wood, Ris & Hames, F. Michael Ludwig, Denver, for petitioners.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., David W. Robbins, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Timothy R. Arnold, Asst. Sol. Gen., Denver, for respondents Director of the Division of Labor and the Industrial Commission of Colorado.

Francis L. Bury, William J. Baum, Robert S. Ferguson, Denver, for respondents Englewood Transit Co. and State Compensation Ins. Fund.


RULAND, Judge.

This is a review of a final order of the Industrial Commission which determined that petitioner Horn Transportation, Inc., and its insurance carrier, Commercial Standard Insurance Company, were liable for the payment of death benefits to the dependents of Rex A. Wards, deceased. We affirm.

The sole question presented for review is whether Horn or Englewood Transit Company was the employer of the decedent at the time of his death for purposes...

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