Beaver v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.

-From a judgment of the district court affirming an award of the Industrial Accident Board in favor of the employer, Morrison-Knudsen Company, and the surety, State Insurance Fund, this appeal is prosecuted. Shortly after the hearing before the board the claimant, Lee Otis Beaver, died, and an order of substitution of Bertha Beaver, Special Administratrix of the Estate of Lee Otis Beaver, was duly made.

The facts are substantially as follows: At the time of the hearing before the Industrial Accident Board the claimant was thirty-two years of age. Prior to 1928 he had been a farmer in Arkansas,…