Kustudia v. Industrial Accident Board

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

George Kustudia was employed as a coal miner by the Montana Coal & Iron Company. On March 20, 1947, while working in such employer’s mine near Washoe, Montana, George Kustudia was'struck by falling rock and thereby crushed and otherwise severely injured. The injuries so sustained arose out of and in the course of Kustudia’s employment and were compensable under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, the employer and workman having elected to become bound under Plan III thereof, B. C. M. 1947, sees. 92-1101 to 92-1123.

At the time of sustaining his injuries Kustudia was married…