Baker v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court reversing an order entered by the joint board of the department of labor and industries upon a claim made under the workmen’s compensation act.

On July 20, 1933, the respondent, a boy eighteen years of age, filed with the department an accident report, wherein it was alleged that he had, on that day, sustained a left inguinal hernia, as a result of slipping and falling while lifting a chunk of wood. The report, which was upon the usual printed form, gave the name of his employer as Daman & Lyle, of Aberdeen, Washington, but that portion…