Halverson v. Rolvaag

Nelson, Justice.

Appeal from a summary judgment of the District Court of Ramsey County in favor of defendants. The action involved is for compensation for the death of a Minnesota National Guardsman pursuant to Minn. St. 1961, § 192.39, and L. 1963, c. 854.1

On September 25, 1955, the guardsman, Lt. Gene C. Bauer, a member of a Minnesota Air National Guard Unit, then on active duty for training, was killed when an airplane he was piloting crashed at Holman Field, St. Paul. Lt. Bauer was survived by his wife, Genevra Bauer (now Genevra Bauer Halverson), and a minor dependent child, Rachelle…