Coffee v. Industrial Commission

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice.

By certiorari we here review an award denying compensation for injuries sustained by petitioner while competing in a team roping event at the Cochise County Sheriff’s Posse Rodeo in Benson, Arizona on Sunday, January 31,1960.

In January of 1959 petitioner, Ray Coffee, was appointed a deputy sheriff of Cochise County. In August of the same year Sheriff Charlie Stewart encouraged and participated in the. organization of the Cochise County Sheriff’s Posse. The posse, a private corporation, was composed of local citizens as well as several of the sheriff’s own deputies.

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