Edwards v. Industrial Commission of Utah

WOLFE, Justice.

Certiorari to the Industrial Commission to review an order denying compensation to William Edwards, an employee of the Huntington Canyon Coal Company, who on September 10, 1934, lost an eye by contact with a nail protruding from a post. There is little dispute in the facts. On the 10th day of September, 1934, the defendant Coal Company operated a coal mine in Huntington Canyon. On that day the plaintiff, applicant before the Commission, was an employee of said company. The company is subject to the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Rev. St. 1933, 42-1-1 et seq.)…