Noelle v. Hoquiam Lumber & Shingle Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chelialis county, Irwin, J., entered March 25, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in a sawmill.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
Respondent recovered a judgment against the appellant on account of personal injuries received while working in appellant’s mill. The appellant presents two principal questions for our consideration. The first is that a certificate of approval, issued by the commissioner of labor under .the factory act of 1905, is conclusive of the facts therein certified to by that officer. The second, that where the plaintiff described his injuries without reference to what his attending *520physicians told him, he thereby waived the privilege of secrecy enjoined by statute upon the physicians.
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