Henson v. Department of Labor & Industries

March 3, 1941, Albert Henson filed a claim with the department of labor and industries for compensation for disability sustained by contraction of an occupational disease, known as silicosis, while in the employ of the Trade Dollar Lease Company of Republic, Washington. The claim was made under the provisions of Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 7679-1 [P. C. § 3472-21], Laws of 1939, chapter 135, p. 382. He certified that the date of his first exposure was October, 1926, and the last was of January 1, 1940.

The supervisor of industrial insurance refused to consider the claim on its merits and…