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Show w OP INTEREST HERE Millard county is liable to the widow wid-ow of Floyd L. Rose for compensation compensa-tion at the rate of about $12.60 a week for six years, under a decision of the supreme court yesterday. Mr. Rose, an automobile salesman, was killed by an outlaw who had escaped fro'm the sheriff's custody and was terrorizing the neighborhood. The county resisted payment on the ground that Mr. Rose had not been regularly employed as a deputy sheriff. The Industrial commission found that he was an employee of the county, in the regular pursuit of the county's business, and that there fore the county should pay compensation. compen-sation. Thus far the commission is upheld by the supreme court. When the commission, however, fixed compensation com-pensation for the widow on the basis of Mr. Rose's earnings as an automobile automo-bile salesman, of $125 a month, which would have given the widow $16 a week, the supreme court does !not follow the commission. It holds that the compensation must be based on the wage of $3 a day which Mr. Rose actually received from the county as deputy sheriff, even though he had not been formally sworn in. The effect of this is to cut the award made by the commission by about $2.40 a week, or down to 60 per cent of the average weekly wage on the basis of $21 a week. |