Hale's Estate v. Industrial Commission

STANFORD, Justice.

This is a proceeding by certiorari to review an award of the Industrial Commission of Arizona which was made after a second rehearing and which affirmed previous awards denying petitioners’ claim for death benefits.

William Hale, the decedent, died on June 23, 1952, at Hilltop Mine, Portal, Arizona. The mine was operated by the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company, respondent employer. There had been two blasts of dynamite in the air shaft at the end of the level where decedent had been working the morning of his death. He came out of the tunnel and complained that he did…