State Employees' Retirement System v. Industrial Accident Commission

SPARKS, J. pro tem.

This is a proceeding upon writ of review of a death benefit award made by the Industrial Accident Commission in favor of the widow and three minor children of Karl Lund, deceased. Petitioner State Employees’ Retirement System seeks an annulment of the award, on the grounds that respondent commission had acted without and in excess of its powers and that the evidence was insufficient to justify the findings of fact.

The decedent, Karl Lund, was employed as a game warden by the Department of Natural Resources. As such officer his duties were to enforce the provisions of the…