Dean v. Anaconda Company

(sitting in place of MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON) :

This is an appeal from a judgment denying compensation under the Montana Workmen’s Compensation Act R.C.M. 1947, sec. 92-101 et seq. Appellant, Earl E. Dean, filed his written claim for compensation on August 6, 1956, alleging total disability due to an alleged accident on May 24, 1956. He claimed that while working in a raise in respondent’s Lexington Mine in Butte, Montana, he lifted a piece of timber above his head and was thrown off balance and felt a snap or catch in his back. He further alleged that he informed his shift boss of the…