Ridley Packing Company v. Holliday

McINERNEY, Justice:

Donald Edward Holliday (claimant) was employed as a butcher of cattle by the Ridley Packing Company at their slaughterhouse. Claimant contracted a disease known as brucellosis, a bacterial infection transmitted by cattle.

The State Industrial Court awarded the claimant temporary compensation. The pertinent portions of the order are as follows:

“That claimant was employed by respondent as a butcher which required that he kill cattle and skin cattle; and that while engaged in his employment with respondent, claimant sustained and contracted the disease of Brucellosis, arising…