State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Industrial Commission

The commission awarded compensation to Lera A. Todd, widow, and to certain others, children, of John E. Todd, deceased, against the State Compensation Insurance Fund.

The Fund, as it might under S. L. 1923, p. 746, § 18, brought suit in the district court to set aside the award, was there defeated, and brings error. The commission and the court were right.

The original finding and order of the referee denied compensation. The first point made by plaintiff in error is that since there was no petition for review of this order the action of the commission, sua sponte, in setting it aside, taking…