Williams v. Department of Labor & Industries

On June 2, 1952, claimant filed his claim with the department of labor and industries asserting he had contracted silicosis while engaged in extrahazardous employment. The department rejected his claim on July 18, 1952, upon the ground that he had the disease before he went to work in Washington for the Howe Sound Company in 1949, notwithstanding its doctor gave him a clean bill of health at that time. It raised no issue that the claim was not filed within the statute of limitations.

Claimant appealed to the board of industrial insurance appeals on August 13, 1952. At its hearing in Wenatchee…