Show U COMPENSATION FOR DEATH TH BY Y LIGHTNING I 1 Compensation for o injury through though an nn act of God God as legally defined In inI j I Utah js s due to the injured according i to to a decision handed down by bv the tho thoI j I supreme court in a c case se in which the state slate toad road commission appealed from froman Ian I an award avard mado made by b the state stale industrial commission under the tho workmen's t I compensation law In declaring what would would be just suet just I- I compensation jn in this particular case ca s e. e the court sets sets' sets seta aside the commissions commission's award of to be paid in Instalments in instalments instalments In- In of ot 1038 10 each week veel and substitutes an award of o 2000 payable pnra le leIn in instalments of ot 7 per week J J. C C. Johnson formerly an I of the state stale road load commission was vas struck by bv by lightning while running to shelter during a thunderstorm On the day in jn question September 4 4 1919 he was vas using a 1 team and anti dragging a ro road rod d in Erne Emery I county countr A A. heavy thunderstorm arose and Johnson John lohn- son sou sought ht shelter from it being struck b by lightning and killed in his flight Compensation was waa awarded d to the widow and minor children by hy bythe bythe hythe I the state industrial commission but the state road commission slon sought to tol upset the award on the ground that tint l it was in no way responsible for fo foan an act act of God Inasmuch as the thc employment of ot Johnson by the road commission Was wis intermittent the supreme court decides do de that the amount of ot compensation tion was not correctly arrived at and Q 0 substitutes an award of 2000 for tor the 56 h heretofore allowed |