Woltje v. Kansas Public Employees Retirement System

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court affirming a decision of the Roard of Trustees of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, which denied plaintiff’s claim for accidental death benefits.

Plaintiff-appellant is the widow of William Theodore Woltje who had been an employee of the Kansas Highway Commission for nearly sixteen years. For the last four or five years before his death, Woltje had operated a motorized grader called a maintained He ordinarily worked an eight-hour day, five days a week. As a motor grader…