Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-06-27 | Page 13 | Auto Concern Must Pay for Employe Death

'AUTO CONCERN MUST Mr FDR EMPLOYE DEATH . ; , I j Diaaenting Member of-j of-j CommiMton Finds, How-J How-J ever, That V. H. Eckman ! Waa on Joy Ride at Time In a divided opinion th state In-idustrlal In-idustrlal eommlMloit, Friday. awaj-d-14 III per week for III WMki to j ).rfutee D. Eckman, widow of Victor I H. Kckman. aa compenaatlon. Tha nay mania win gate rrom iecemer tl. l2t, tho aame to bo paid by the Kurd Motor romnany or tha Aetna Life Insurance company. Insurance carrier for tho motor company. Tha enajority decision la signed by William Wil-liam Ma Knerr and Nephl Morris, Commissioner O. Ft McHtaane dls-aenting. dls-aenting. Tha cone! u si one of the majority ara that Felt mart was fatally Injured In-jured by res eon of an accident artn-4ng artn-4ng out of hla employment with the j Ford Motor company. On December Decem-ber 20, In tha capacity of road man j for tho company, ho waa promoting J tho sale of cars. f WAS DEMONSTRATING. It was found that hla duties were j such that It was prartlcally Impossible Impos-sible for htm to work at regular houra and that hla employment waa of auch a' nature that be waa left to exercise to great degree his own discretion aa to the time and manner man-ner of his employment; that ho waa In full charge of tho car and was responsible for the same from tho time tho car left Bait Lake until un-til Its return: that while tne amr, i with a Mr. Jones driyng Jind In which waa Eckmaa and other parlies par-lies from Imogen, had reached a point about two and one-half ml lea south nf Logon It was. for some uti-kitrrwn uti-kitrrwn reaaon. cguaed to turn over and one of the women composing 1 the party and Mr. Erkmin were , killed. It waa further found that the party In tha car waa not proceeding pro-ceeding to any particular place, but I was ulng tho car under tha dlrec 1 tlon and supervision nf Rrkman for the purpose of demonstrating It to Mr. Jona and his prospective customers. cus-tomers. In view of these finding tho award waa made. In addition t9 the award made to Mrs. Kckman. tho Kord Motor company com-pany waa directed to pay K K. Dudley flM for the burial or Rrkman, Rrk-man, his son-ln-law. and alao relm-i relm-i bursa him for medical attention to hla aon-ln-law. M'SHANC DISSENTS. In dleaentlna frony tho majority. Commissioner McBhane maintained that Kckman and Jonea picked up tho girle who were In tho party at different nolnta and that the ware rm their way ta Hyrum to attend a dance. Under theaa clrcumetancea, to hold that Kckman, by hta prea-enco prea-enco In tho car waa In the rourae of hla employment waa a atand too broad to take under the scope of the atate Induatrlal act to an extent and manner "which to me." he added, add-ed, "waa never contemplated by tha legislature." 'Therefore,'' aaya Commteeloner Mcflhayne, I am forced to conclude that Kckman waa not fataly Injured by reaaon of an accident arlalng out of tha couraa of his employment and j therefore deny the widow and chll- I dren compensation.1