Tilly v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury awarding to respondent a widow’s pension and other incidental benefits under the workmen’s compensation act (RCW Title 51).

The uncontroverted facts appear as follows:

On October 30, 1952, and for several months prior thereto, Floyd C. Tilly, aged fifty-one years, was in the employ of the Acme Door Corporation (which has since been succeeded by appellant Georgia-Pacific Corporation). At about ten o’clock a. m. on that day, Tilly, while working in the plant of his employer, left the machine which he was operating and walked…