Foster v. Diehl Lumber Co.

TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

On July 28, 1953, Louis Foster, then 57 years old, suffered a fatal accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by the respondent Diehl Lumber Company. Appellant, as his widow, filed a claim for death benefits in which she states the date of marriage as April 9, 1953. Prior to that date claimant had been a widow maintaining a home for herself and two minor sons at Clark Fork, where she also took in boarders. Her husband had died in 1945. The deceased Louis Foster’s first wife had divorced him in 1944. In 1948 claimant and Foster began “keeping company”…