Bergantzel v. Union Transfer Co.

This is an appeal from the order of the district court for Douglas county denying plaintiff’s claim for compensation under the workmen’s compensation law, based upon the death of her husband. The trial court determined from the evidence “that the accident by which claimant’s (plaintiff’s) husband lost his life did not arise out of, or in the course of, his employment by the defendant company, but from an independent cause which (employment) * * * had no causal relation to his death.” The record discloses conflicting evidence as to the essential facts of the transaction in which deceased lost…