Newkirk v. Golden Cycle Mining & Reduction Co.

The industrial commission denied compensation to Mary A. Newkirk for the death of her husband, the district court affirmed the order and she brings the case here. The judgment was right.

The accident was taking cold by exposure while fighting a fire on the employer’s premises. Pneumonia appeared seven or eight days later, of which the victim died in six days.

The commission found that there was no connection between the cold and the pneumonia. There was evidence of competent physicians, among whom was the attending physician, to that effect; we, therefore, as well as the district court, must…