Wintermute v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal in an industrial insurance case from the judgment on the verdict of the jury awarding respondent, Ivie M. Wintermute, compensation, spoken of as a pension, for the death of her husband, Peter Wintermute, and for compensation for which he made application prior to his death, the judgment providing that the department fix such amounts according to the terms of the statute.

Peter Wintermute, while working for the Weyer-haeuser Timber Company in extrahazardous employment, on May 8, 1930, received an accidental fracture of his left hip. His claim for compensation was allowed and…