Lauer v. Tri-Mont Cooperative Creamery

Sheran, Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission.

On December 18, 1957, at approximately 5 p. m., Emil Schmidt, an employee of Tri-Mont Cooperative Creamery, Trimont, Minnesota, came to his death. The cause: Coronary occlusion. Neither the creamery nor its workmen’s compensation insurer, Mutual Creamery Insurance Company, filed a report of the death with the commission.

On December 13, 1963, Emil Schmidt’s widow, Hazel Schmidt, executed a petition addressed to the Industrial Commission of the State of Minnesota (now the Workmen’s Compensation Commission)…