ALMA EVANS TRUCKING v. ROACH

No. 20200.

714 P.2d 1147 (1986)

ALMA EVANS TRUCKING and/or Utah State Insurance Fund, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. Heather Ann ROACH, minor daughter of Isaac Robertson, deceased, Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of Utah.

February 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliot K. Morris, James R. Black, Salt Lake City, for plaintiffs and appellants.

David L. Wilkinson, Atty. Gen., Stephen G. Schwendiman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for defendants and respondents.

Remona Roach, pro-se.


HOWE, Justice:

Plaintiffs seek review of an order of the Industrial Commission awarding death benefits to a posthumous child of a deceased worker, effective the date of the worker's death, which was about three weeks before the child was born.

On April 18, 1984, Isaac Robertson was killed in a trucking accident arising out of or in the course of his employment with plaintiff Alma Evans Trucking. On May 11, a daughter was born to Remona J. Roach. The child...

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