Ryan v. Industrial Accident Board

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Granite county.

Andrew Ryan was employed by the Montana state highway commission on the main through highway No. 10. The employees of the state highway commission are enrolled under plan 3 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Rev. Codes 1921, sec. 2990 et seep) and the Industrial Accident Fund is the insurance carrier. On July 24, 1933, Ryan was working at a point near the town of Drummond picking up rock along the highway. There were five or six other men similarly employed at intervals not far from where Ryan was working. The weather…