Daugherty v. Department of Labor & Industries

—This appeal is from a judgment reversing an order of the joint board of the department of labor and industries which denied the claim of Velma Frieda Daugherty for a widow’s pensión on account of the death of her husband, Lewis Ray Daugherty.

The husband’s death occurred while he was engaged in an extrahazardous employment, as defined by the workmen’s compensation act. The joint board rejected the widow’s claim for the assigned reason “that the death of Lewis Ray Daugherty was not the result of the injury alleged, nor was the injury the result of trauma.” Reversing the finding of the joint…