TUOMELA v. RESERVE MINING COMPANY

No. 44063.

216 N.W.2d 638 (1974)

Robert V. TUOMELA, Employee, v. RESERVE MINING COMPANY, Relator, Travelers Insurance Company, Respondent, State Treasurer, Custodian of the Special Compensation Fund, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan, Hanft, Hastings, Fride & O'Brien and William M. Burns, Duluth, for relator.

Reavill, Neimeyer, Johnson, Fredin, Killen & Thibodeau and Thomas R. Thibodeau, Duluth, Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Curtis D. Forslund, Sol. Gen., Kenneth E. McCoy, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondents.

Considered and decided by the court without oral argument.


PER CURIAM.

Relator-employer, Reserve Mining Company, by writ of certiorari seeks review of a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Commission denying relator's claim for reimbursement from the Special Compensation Fund pursuant to Minn.St. 176.131, subd. 1. We affirm.

While employed by relator, Robert Tuomela sustained a work-connected leg injury in 1956. In 1968, while still employed by relator, Tuomela suffered a back injury. Relator, a self-insurer, contends...

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