Gulf Insurance Co. v. Johnson

PEDEN, Justice.

Gulf Insurance Company appeals from a judgment rendered on jury findings awarding Mrs. Jesse Mae Johnson 360 weeks of worker’s compensation benefits for the death of her son, Richard Johnson, plus $1,250 for his burial expenses. Twenty-year-old Richard Johnson was employed as a dishwasher and kitchen helper at Echo Hill Ranch, a recreational youth camp, during the fourteen days before the afternoon of June 16, 1977, when ranch employees discovered his body floating in the shallow water of a river on the premises of the camp. His death certificate indicated that accidental…