Teegarden v. North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau

SAND, Justice.

This is an appeal from a district court judgment affirming a Workmen’s Compensation Bureau order denying benefits to the claimant Teegarden on the grounds that the claim was not filed within one year after he knew or should have known that the injury he suffered was related to his employment.

Virgil E. Teegarden, the claimant and the appellant, started work in 1967 with the Hunter Grain Company in Hunter, North Dakota. Hunter Grain Company owns two elevators in Hunter, and Teegarden started work at a feed mill at one of the elevators. In February 1969, he began to have lung…