Birdwell v. Three Forks Portland Cement Co.

This is an appeal in a compensation case arising under the Montana Workmen’s Compensation Act.

Claim was filed with the Industrial Accident Board by Ethel Davis Birdwell, wife of Claude E. Birdwell, a workman who died on July 15, 1932, while on duty in the course of his employment as a cement burner at the plant of the Three Forks Portland Cement Company, at Trident, Montana. The employer was enrolled under plan No. 1 of the above Act. The claim was resisted, and the matter came to hearing before the board on November 18, 1932. At that time the testimony of all the witnesses, except that of…