Watson v. Sam Knight Mining Lease, Inc.

LA PRADE, Justice.

Certiorari to the Arizona Industrial Commission.

By this proceeding we are asked to review an award of the Commission denying petitioner’s claim for death benefits provided in the Workmen’s Compensation Act. A.C.A.1939, § 56-901 et seq. The Commission, by its award, found that the deceased husband and employee had died July 1, 1953, “as a result of acute heart failure due to heat exhaustion” — “not the result of an injury by accident arising out of and in. the course of his employment.”

The facts leading up to the death show that the decedent had been in his then employment…