KENNECOTT COPPER CORP. v. INDUS. COM'N

No. 15939.

597 P.2d 875 (1979)

KENNECOTT COPPER CORPORATION, Utah Copper Division, Plaintiff, v. The INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION of Utah and Bill Bilanzich, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Utah.

June 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parsons, Behle & Latimer, James B. Lee, Erie V. Boorman, Jr., Salt Lake City, for plaintiff.

Michael W. Park, Cedar City, Robert B. Hansen, Atty. Gen., Frank V. Nelson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for defendants.


CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Kennecott Copper Corporation seeks reversal of a workmen's compensation award made to defendant Bill Bilanzich on May 5, 1978, for an injury to and disability of his left wrist which resulted from a fall while in the course of his duties at plaintiff's workings near Magna four years earlier, in March of 1974.

The defense asserted by Kennecott below and the issue presented on this appeal is that the claim was barred by the three-year...

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