McClure v. Union, Counties

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Defendant counties and their insurance carriers appeal from trial court’s judgment sustaining the industrial commissioner’s allowance of workmen’s compensation benefits to the widow of Elvin Gale McClure, a juvenile court probation officer.

Defendant-appellants assert the trial court erred in that (1) claimant’s decedent was not an employee of defendant counties (2) claimant’s decedent was an employee of the Third Judicial District of Iowa and not within the purview of the workmen’s compensation act unless it be concluded he was a law-enforcement officer (3) claimant’s…