Parle v. Henry Boos Dental Laboratories, Inc.

Otis, Justice.

The respondent, Patricia Parle Osmonson, has been awarded workmen’s compensation as a result of tuberculosis which she contracted while employed by relator Henry Boos Dental Laboratories, Inc. Boos and its insurer seek review of a determination by the Industrial Commission that Mrs. Osmonson’s disability was an occupational disease.

Although relators challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support a finding that Mrs. Osmonson contracted tuberculosis from fellow workers, we do not find it necessary to consider that question. Assuming this was the source of her infection the…