Kohler v. Industrial Commission

HENRIOD, Chief Justice:

Review of a Commission order reducing a widow’s award to a ½ lump sum when she remarried, as provided for in Title 35-1-73, Utah Code Annotated 1953. Affirmed, with no costs awarded.

Mrs. Kohler, a widow, urges that the above act,1 in effect at the time of Mr. Kohler’s death that resulted from an industrial accident, constitutionally is discriminatory and a “cruel in terrorem disincentive for remarriage.” We think not.

The act provided that if a widow dependent, receiving benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation laws,2 and there*294after remarries, her sole right to further…