Muchmore v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

UDALL, Chief Justice.

By certiorari, petitioner Marie Tegeder Muchmore, a widow, has brought before-us for review an award of the Industrial' Commission of Arizona — hereinafter termed the commission — denying her, as-sole dependent, “death benefits” provided' for under the Workmen’s Compensation-Law, A.R.S. § 23-901 et seq. Her husband,. Miles Burchard Muchmore., aged fifty-nine-years, was fatally injured on Sunday evening, January 16, 1955, in an automobile-collision occurring on U. S. Highway 84-near Tucson. We shall hereafter refer to-this road as the Picacho Highway.

Decedent Muchmore at…