Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal by an employer from a judgment of the superior court awarding a widow’s pension under the workmen’s compensation act for the death of a workman alleged to have resulted from an industrial accident.

The workman, John George Johansen, sixty-seven years of age, was a painter by trade and as such was employed by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Company, appellant herein. Johansen died December 4, 1941, following an attack of appendicitis on November 29th. A year later, November 25, 1942, his widow, Lena B. Johansen, appearing by an attorney, presented to the department of labor and…