Salt Lake County v. Industrial Commission

WOLFE, Justice.

From an award by the Industrial Commission to Mrs. Mary A. Prowse for an accidental injury resulting in death to her husband allegedly received while in the course of his employment, employer Salt Lake County appeals.

John Prowse, husband of respondent, was employed by Salt Lake County, petitioner, as a helper on a gravel loading machine. While loading trucks for the County from the waste dump of the Maxfield Mine in Big Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake County, Prowse became ill on July 26, 1940, and subsequently died on August 2, 1940, of a disease diagnosed as Rocky Mountain…