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Show I Award Upheld in I Compensation Suit SALT LAKE, Aug l A decision of 1h State lndustrinl commission, awarding compensation to Pavid Hareldine for injuric sustained while employed by the city of Murray, was upheld by the supreme court in a decision de-cision handed down yesterday, and the verdict of the district court of Salt Lake county, setting aside the decision of the commission, was denied Ha;vi dine was struck by the handle of a shovel while handling slag for Murnr. rn August 25, 1917, the blow bein only a slight one The next day he developed partial paralysii The attending physician held that vhile the blow Itself did not causi l'h I stroke, the effect through high blood F pressure and the general physical condition con-dition of the man was directly responsible. respon-sible. Murray City appealed from the decision of the industrial commission awarding compensation, claiming the evidence did not justify the conclusion that the stroke was due to the shovel handle blow. The district court set aside the commission's decision The commission appealed the case to lh supreme court, with a resultant opinion opin-ion In favor of the commission and the injured man. In the matter of the estate of Maren C. Hansen of which Henry- Hansen was appointed administrator in 1902, fourteen yt-ar after the death of the owner, the supreme court reversed the Judgment of the Salt Lake county court, ordered the case remanded to that court with directions to set aside the findings of fact and judgment; to deny the petition of Martha H. Reese, a daughter of the deceased, for removal re-moval of Hansen as administrator, to grant a rehearing upon the account ol the administrator and to settle the account The daughter had sued lor the removal of the administrator and made numerous charges against his administration that were sustained by the district court |