Ames v. Department of Labor & Industries

— Respondent, a workman engaged in extraliazardous employment, made a report of accidental injuries said to have been suffered on December 9, 1931. The report, dated December 31, 1931, was signed by the claimant at the Western State Hospital for the insane and so shows on its face.

An investigation was made by the department, and the report made by the investigator shows the claimant to have been violently insane as early as December 11, 1931, and that he was known to have been committed to the hospital and was there confined. Notwithstanding this knowledge, the department, on February 15,…