Morris v. State Compensation Commissioner

Lovins, Judge:

This is a statutory appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, denying workmen’s compensation benefits to Mrs. Carrie Morris, hereinafter referred to as “claimant”, whose deceased husband, Harry Morris, at the time <?f his death, was an employee of the Page Mining Company, hereinafter referred, to as “employer.”

*426Harry Morris, a sixty-one year old pump man, was found dead in the employer’s mine on the afternoon of February 17, 1949. The widow’s claim, based on the contention that death was due to an electrical shock sustained by her husband in the course of…