Bemis v. Texaco, Inc., 3414

• Decision Date: 11 May 1965
• Docket Number: No. 3414,3414
• Citation: Bemis v. Texaco, Inc., 401 P.2d 708 (Wyo. 1965)
• Parties: Earl A. BEMIS, Appellant (Employee-Claimant, below), v. TEXACO, INC. (Employer-Defendant, below), and Wyoming State Treasurer, Appellee.
• Court: Wyoming Supreme Court

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401 P.2d 708

Earl A. BEMIS, Appellant (Employee-Claimant, below), v. TEXACO, INC. (Employer-Defendant, below), and Wyoming State Treasurer, Appellee.

No. 3414.

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

May 11, 1965.

No appearance for appellant.

John F. Raper, Atty. Gen., Thomas A. Burley, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellee.

Before PARKER, C. J., and HARNSBERGER, GRAY, and McINTYRE, JJ.

Mr. Chief Justice PARKER delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellee's basic contention in requesting rehearing is that this court in the initial opinion substituted its own conclusions that the injury 'occurred in October 1963' for those of the district court that the 'date of the injury was on or about May 29, 1954.' Such contention is unwarranted since the district court in its order of award of January 15, 1964, stated that the employee 'was injured on October 17, 1963, as a result of an accident of May 29, 1954,' and did not in its later order of September 3 alter such statement. In the light of this circumstance, the argument in the petition for rehearing, all dependent on the unwarranted premise as to substitution of conclusions, is merely repetitious of argument previously submitted.

The need for clarification of the applicable law urgently suggested by appellee is not apparent, but since a need for guidelines has been voiced, it may be well to note that the holding in the present case is merely another application of the principle announced by us in Baldwin v. Scullion, 50 Wyo. 508, 62 P.2d 531, 108 A.L.R. 304, where, alluding to §...