Smith v. Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.

This appeal grows out of an attempt to recover compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Rev. Code 19x9, § 9436 et seq., as amended). The plaintiff was accidentally injured in the course of his employment in the defendant’s beet sugar plant. A board of arbitration was waived and a hearing was had before the Industrial Commissioner. The commissioner took the evidece and made the following findings of fact:

“1. That the claimant, John Smith, was on the 20th day of June, 1931, and for some months prior to that time in the employ of the defendant, the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, at its…