St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries

John S. Higgins, who continuously worked as a millwright for St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company from March, 1919, until June, 1941, died June 15,1941, while on a railroad train enroute .to Colorado with his wife, Jennie B. Higgins, on advice of several physicians to change his residence to a higher and drier climate. The Colorado death certificate states, as the immediate cause of death, “cardiac asthma — acute myocarditis.” July 28, 1941, the widow filed with the department of labor and industries a claim for pension in which she alleged that her husband’s death was the result of dust…