Legal Opinion

Sweitzer v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Washington Supreme Court

Decided July 27, 1921No. 16509PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Skagit county, Brawley, J., entered April 27, 1920, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, on an appeal from an award of the industrial insurance commission.

1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.

On August 10, 1918, the respondent Sweitzer, while engaged in an. extra hazardous occu*399pation within the meaning of the workmen’s compensation act, fell from a scaffold and was injured. He applied to the industrial insurance commission for compensation, and that body found, after due investigation, that he had suffered from the accident a temporary total disability, and a permanent partial disability to his thumbs, and made him an award accordingly. On January 4, 1920, the respondent filed with the industrial insurance commission a written application for the re-opening of his case and a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Parker v. Industrial Insurance DepartmentWashington Supreme Court · 1918

3Cited by32 opinions

  1. State v. FordWashington Supreme Court · 1988
  2. In Re the Eligibility of the Persons Employed at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1941
  3. In Re the Employees of Buffelen Lumber & Manufacturing Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1948
  4. Morgan v. Department of Social SecurityWashington Supreme Court · 1942
  5. Webb v. DameronCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1949

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