Olson v. Erickson

This is a workmen’s compensation case based on an alleged accidental injury and resultant death of an employee. The Industrial Commission and the district court denied the claim for compensation on the ground that claimant, widow of deceased, “failed to sustain the burden of proof.”

Claimant’s contentions are that on February 17, 1939, her husband was working in the boiler-room of L. H. Erickson, his employer, wetting down ashes with a rubber hose when the nozzle, which was only taped or wired on, came off, and that as a result he was completely drenched with water; that shortly thereafter,…