Nicholas Ex Rel Nicholas v. Idaho Power Co.

— Ralph A. Nicholas, aged 42, was employed by the Idaho Power Company at a compensation of $170 per month. April 2, 1941, while working on a pole line near Aberdeen, he was injured and, as a result of such injury, died April 9, 1941. The Power Company was duly notified of the employee’s injury and death. April 12, 1941, claim for compensation by Margaret E. Nicholas, as widow of decedent, on behalf of herself and five dependent minor children named therein, was filed with the Industrial Accident Board.

A second claim for compensation was filed April 24, 1941, by Geneva Nicholas Hottel, as…