Litke v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal by the department of labor and industries of the state of Washington from a judgment of the superior court for Snohomish county, entered on December 27, 1938, in favor of claimant, Edmund Litke, wherein the department was ordered to pay claimant an additional twenty-one degrees permanent partial disability, at thirty dollars per degree, or $630.

Edmund Litke was injured on July 13, 1927, while engaged in extrahazardous occupation for the Clark Nickerson Lumber Company, of Everett. Claimant continued to work until September 3, 1927, when he consulted Dr. Howard, the employer’s…