Didier v. State Industrial Accident Commission

The State Industrial Accident Commission appeals from a judgment allowing compensation to a widow whose claim had been rejected by the Commission on the ground that the deceased was not at the time of his fatal injuries a workman covered by the compensation law then in effect.

The decedent, for several years prior to 1953, had operated a welding and machine shop in Condon. In 1953, he sold his business building and moved his machinery and tools to his home. He worked thereafter as a diesel engineer for a federal agency, and occasionally did welding or mechanical work for pay in his shop at…