UTAH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. Matheson

CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiff Utah Construction Company (and its insurer) challenges an order of the Industrial Commission that it pay for a wheelchair and other medical equipment and therapy for defendant Cleon J. Mathe-son who had suffered a total disability injury in plaintiff’s employment twelve years earlier, on October 15, 1962, when he suffered an injury to his head while working on a roll crusher in plaintiff’s mining operation. Notwithstanding echoes of doubt in plaintiff’s argument herein, the question of causation in employment was determined at that time; and inasmuch as there was…