Kannenberg Granite Co. v. Industrial Commission

Sigurd Torve, who died on September 6, 1931, forty-five years of age, was a granite cutter during his lifetime. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis, a disease natural to and acquired by him as a result of such occupation.

For some years prior to July 24, 1930, he was employed by the defendants Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company, the proprietors of a granite-cutting institution. It appears that in June, 1930, the Anderson Brothers & Johnson Company procured a medical examination of their employees, to which Torve submitted. This examination disclosed an accumulation of silicosis in Torve’s…