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Show High Court Upholds Compensation Act SALT LA1CI2. OCT. 23 In a de-1 de-1 ctsion rendered by tho supreme court of Utah yesterday which Involved I many points In the validity of the L'tah j workmen's compensation act. the court upheld the act In ever) particular at -I tacked The case ti officially that of ,the l'tah Copper company against the ; Industrial Commission of L'tah and others. i Louis J. Ftushton. a farmer neat j Magna, died January 2, IJ19, as a result re-sult of an accident oecuring while he was employed l the Utah Copper company In fixing the banks of the Salt Lake and L'tah canal, to prevent its overflowing. The Ltah Copper company depends partly upon the canal ca-nal to furnish it with a continuous supply of water, particularlv in the I winter time Re had clogged the canal' and fiushton was employed bv the copper company's cahal boss, named: Larson, to assist in strengthening the' banks. Rushton left a widow. Mrs. Julia C Rushton jnd several minor children. Another child was born some tlmaft-' er the death of the father and the I claims of this child furnished one of the leal puzzles in the case. Mrs. I'.ushton was appointed ...; guardla'n of' the minor.-, and. with the tonsen' of he district court, elected to accept the benefits of the workmen's compensa tion act. rather than attempt to col-I col-I on ,i personal damage suit !or her husband's death The commission awarded her and th-- minor children Including tho upborn child, the .1 ith benefit prescribed by the compensation law In such cases Tin- Ltah Copper company appealed under the then existing law. to the i district court of Salt lake countv and when that court upheld the award of the industrial commission, to the su- prcme court of the state The case was argued for the commission in both courts by James H Wolfe, assistant .attorney general The supreme court , upholds the district . ourt. and decides 1 that. In addition to the award of the 'commission, the copper company must pay interest on nil payments noW due from the time they became due. and also osts of the appeal The case was brought by the Luh Copper largely at a test of inanv rather rath-er Important provision.- of thr- f,n,- Ipensatlon law which had not hitherto been before the courts. The decision I was written by Justice Valentine Gld-I con. and is unanimous. OO |