Read v. Dept. Labor Industries

This is an appeal by the department of labor and industries from a judgment of the superior court of Lewis county, reversing an order of the joint board of the department, which order refused to grant Orvil M. Read a rehearing upon his claim for compensation because of an injury sustained in an extrahaz-ardous employment.

Read was employed by the Doty Lumber & Shingle Company at Doty, this state, and on September 17, 1924, suffered an accident while so employed. The injury sustained was to the right arm. No claim for compensation was presented to the department of labor and industries until…