Kerns v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co.

Maria B. Kerns has appealed from a judgment of the district court of 'Silver Bow county sustaining the findings and judgment of the Industrial Accident Board, denying her compensation for the death of her husband, John N. Kerns, while in the employ of the defendant, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and dismissing her claim therefor.

Kerns died at the Murray Hospital, in Butte, on June 8, 1928, as a result of septicemia, or blood poisoning. The following day a coroner’s inquest ivas held, resulting in a verdict merely reciting that “deceased was hit by a rock that fell out of the hopper at the…