Dawe v. Norge Division of Borg-Warner Corp.

This is an appeal in the nature of certiorari from an award to plaintiff as total dependent of her husband who died as a result of in haling sulphur dioxide gas while in the employ of defendant company.

Plaintiff’s husband was working at an operation known as finishing or lapping seals. The process was polishing and grinding pieces of metal from refrigerator units and there was no poisonous gas in connection with such work. Plaintiff’s husband worked in a room where sulphur dioxide gas was present; he was taken sick the second day he worked in the room and died a few days later.

Defendant…