Court Opinion

ID: 9558643
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:14:35.039637+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:09:29.530700
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE ADAIR
dissenting:
I dissent. This appeal is most similar to the appeal to this Court in Lupien v. Montana Record Publishing Co., 143 Mont. 415, 390 P.2d 455, wherein District Judge Lester H. Loble rendered judgment holding that Garnett M. Lupien, the widow of the deceased workman, was entitled to have and receive the workman’s compensation for which she applied and reversed the Industrial Accident Board, which prior to Judge Loble’s ruling had ruled that the widow was not entitled to compensation. The view I there took was that Judge Loble’s judgment was correct and that it should be affirmed, and I so stated in my dissenting Opinion to this court’s ruling in the Lupien case.
In the instant case of Stordahl v. Rush Implement Co., District Judge Guy C. Derry reversed the Industrial Accident Board’s prior riding and ruled that the beneficiaries of Pete Stordahl, the insured workman, who died on February 4, 1964, were entitled to the full period of 500 weeks of compensation in accordance with the Workmen’s Compensation Act of the State of Montana.
In my opinion the judgment so rendered by Judge Derry in favor of the beneficiaries of Pete Stordahl, deceased, was correct and it should be affirmed.