NEVADA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION v. Williams

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

Vernon Williams is partially disabled by reason of a respiratory deficit, cause unknown. Through a claim filed with the Nevada Industrial Commission he sought compensation for his ailment, alleging that on February 6, 1972, while employed as a room service waiter at the Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas, he inhaled a concentrated amount of poisonous gas. An investigator for the Commission interviewed coemployees on duty that day and none was found to have experienced any unusual odor or gas, and the area of the hotel in which the incident is alleged to have occurred…